Microbial Surfactants: A Review

By K. K. Gautam, V. Tyagi. 2006

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Characterization and properties of the biosurfactant produced by Candida lipolytica UCP 0988 (2014, background): “Most of the biosurfactants produced by this bacterium have shown to reduce the surface tension to values around 27,28 mN/m [27,28,29].”
• An efficient biosurfactant-producing and crude-oil emulsifying bacterium Bacillus methylotrophicus USTBa isolated from petroleum reservoir (2013, background): “Based on the chemical composition and microbial origin, biosurfactant are classified as glycolipids, lipopeptides, fatty acids, polymeric type and particulate biosurfactant [3].”
• Postharvest Handling and Storage of Fresh Cassava Root and Products: a Review (2015, background): “The use of industrial fatty waste such as cassava flour as biosurfactant production Biosurfactants helps to lower chemical toxicity Gautam and Tyagi (2006)”
• Biosurfactants-Types, Sources and Applications (2015, background): “Sophorolipids, generally a mixture of at least six to nine different hydrophobic sophorolipids (Gautam and Tyagi, 2006) and lactone form of the sophorolipid is preferable for many applications (Hu and Ju, 2001) Lipopeptides and lipoproteins: These consist of a lipid attached to a polypeptide chain…”
• Biosurfactant Producing Microbes and their Potential Applications: A Review (2015, background): “Isolation of the genes for protein molecules of this surfactant and cloning in bacteria have made its fermentative production possible for medical applications (Gautam and Tyagi, 2005).”
• Isolation and characterization of glycolipid biosurfactant produced by a Pseudomonas otitidis strain isolated from Chirimiri coal mines, India (2016, background): “Most of the BSs produced by this bacterium have shown to reduce the surface tension to values around 27–28 mN/m (Gautam and Tyagi 2000).”
• A Review on the Biosurfactants: Properties, Types and its Applications (2018, background): “The expanding ecological concern compels us to look for elective items, for example, biosurfactants [13].”