Microbial Products Biotechnology

Ghosh, S. "Microbial Production of Energy Gaseous Fuek " Lecture presented at the Seventh International Biotechnology Symposium New Delhi, India, February 1984. 

Verrall M.S. (Ed) (1985) Discovery and Isolation of Microbial Products. Society of Chemical Industry Series in Biological Chemistoy and Biotechnology. Chichester Ellis Horwood. 

Sauer, M., Porro, D., Mattanovich, D. and Branduardi, P. (2008) Microbial production of organic acids expanding the markets. Trends in Biotechnology, 26 (2), 100-108. 

Kumagai, H. (2000) Microbial production of amino acids in Japan. Advances in Biochemical Engineering/ Biotechnology, 69, 71-85. 

Martins dos Santos, V. A. R, Vasilevska, T., Kajuk, B., Trampeg J., Wijffels, R. H. (1997) Production and characterization of double-layer beads for coimmobilization of microbial cells. Biotechnology Annu. Rev., 3, 227-44. 

The biotechnological synthesis of lactones has reached a high standard. Besides microbial production, lactones can also be enzymatically produced. For instance, a lipase-catalysed intramolecular transesterification of 4-hydroxy-carboxylic esters leads enantioselectively (ee>80%) to (S)-y-lactones the chain length may vary from C5 to Cl 1 [13]. y-Butyrolactone can be produced in that way with lipase from Mucor miehei [30]. 

A very efficient way to obtain bioflavours is by biotechnological processing using microorganisms [5]. The microbial production of aromas offers many advantages the circumstances under which the reactions occur are generally mild e.g., neutral pH, ambient temperature. There are... 

Bennett, G.N. and San, K.Y. 2001. Microbial Formation, Biotechnological Production and Applications of 1,2-Propanediol. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 55, 1-9. 

Diirre P, Bahl H (1996) Microbial production ofacetone/butanol/isopropanol. In Rehm H-J, Reed G (eds) Biotechnology - a multi-volume comprehensive treatise, vol 6b, Verlag Chemie, Weinhein... 

Biotechnological transformation is powerful tool to effectively utilize a broad variety of plant oils, with the aim to modify their structure for the production of new lipid-based materials with demanded properties and functions. One method of plant oil transformation is based on the direct utilization by microorganisms. Employed oils can be converted to aimed compounds by submerged cultivation or oils, and/or oleaginous plant materials can be utilized during solid state fermentation to useful bioproducts enriched with demanded microbial products. Another biotransformation technique covers the enzymatic modification of oil components to structured lipids with biological properties. 

Ramanchandran, S., Fontanille, P., Pandey, A., and Larroche, C. 2006. Gluconic acid Properties, applications and microbial production. Food Technology and Biotechnology 44 185-195. 

Scheper, T., Faurie, R. and Thommel, J. (2003). Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology microbial production of L-amino-acids, 79. Berlin, Germany Springer-Verlag. 

D. R. Schroeder, presented at the 3rd International Conference on the Biotechnology of Microbial Products, Society for Industrial Microbiology, Rohnert Park, CA, April 1993 Paper S4. 

Ice-nucleation active bacteria. This was the first microbial product of biotechnology for which approval of field tests was requested. This has resulted in a long court battle with no final conclusion to date. After 241 experiments, expenditures of 750,000, and five man-years of research, Advanced Genetic Sciences has not yet convinced regulators and the public that their modified Pseudomonas... 

Fed. Reg. 17910 (Apr. 11,1997) Microbial Products of Biotechnology Final Regulation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act Final Rule 62 FR17910 Microorgs 4-11-97... 

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