These yeasts oxidize substances of a large group of the represented classes of organic compounds, which includes alcohols, carbohydrates, carboxylic acids, amino acids and surfactants that can be found in waste waters (Table 1). The ability of the yeasts D. hansenii and A. ɑdeninivorans to actively oxidize secondary and branched alcohols enables the use of biosensors on their basis
for BOD assays of waste waters in enterprises of liquor and spirits industry. Valuable from a practical point of view are responses
to sodium dodecyl sulfate and sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate
(components of detergents), as well as the absence of a toxic action
of these substrates at their short-time effect on immobilized yeasts.