culture [15]. Yellow Monascus pigments are the minor pigment
components in the conventional Monascus fermentation. Thus,
there is lack of basic information about yellow Monascus pigments,
such as the aminophilic reaction between yellow Monascus pigments
and primary amines.
In our previous work, extractive fermentation in a nonionic surfactant
micelle aqueous solution had exported intracellular
Monascus pigments into its extracellular broth, in which high fraction
of yellow Monascus pigments was accumulated in the extracellular
broth (nonionic surfactant micelle aqueous solution)
[16].