Natural roles of biosurfactants.

By E. Ron, Eugene Rosenberg. Environmental Microbiology, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Pollution

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Microbial biofilm: formation, architecture, antibiotic resistance, and control strategies (2021, background): “Ron and Rosenberg [59] reported the role of biosurfactants in the binding of heavy metals and the production of virulence factors.”
A Review on Biosurfactants: Fermentation, Current Developments and Perspectives (2011, background): “Various aspects of biosurfactants, such as their biomedical and therapeutic properties [35] their natural roles [36], their production on inexpensive alternative”
Biochar effects on soil biota – A review (2011, background): “Formation of surfactants by microorganisms (Ron and Rosenberg, 2001) may additionally facilitate adhesion to biochars.”
Biosurfactant: Production and Application (2012, background): “Ron and Rosenberg [11] suggested that when the surface area becomes limiting, biomass increases arithmetically rather than exponentially, the evidence that emulsification is a natural process brought about by extra-cellular agents is indirect and there are certain conceptual difficulties in understa”
Remediation technologies for heavy metal contaminated groundwater. (2011, background): “Decrease in the surface tension of water makes the heavy metals more available for remediation from contaminated soils (Ron and Rosenberg, 2001).”
Microbial distribution in soils: physics and scaling (2008, background): “Although produced for a variety of reasons, including bacterial cell surface modification, biofilm dispersal, swarming motility and as a fungal antibiotic (Ron and Rosenberg, 2001), biosurfactants will have a powerful role in the modification of surface tension and wetting properties of pore water a”
Quorum sensing and swarming migration in bacteria. (2004, neutral): “3 [60].”
Crude petroleum-oil biodegradation efficiency of Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from a petroleum-oil contaminated soil from North-East India. (2007, background): “Production of biosurfactant is related to the utilization of available hydrophobic substrates by the producing microbes from their natural habitat, presumably by increasing the surface area of substrates and increasing their apparent solubility (Ahimou et al., 2000; Maier, 2003; Mukherjee and Das, 2”