Gluconic Acid: Properties, Applications and Microbial Production
By S. Ramachandran, P. Fontanille, A. Pandey, C. Larroche. 2006
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Summary Gluconic acid is a mild organic acid derived from glucose by a simple oxidation reaction. The reaction is facilitated by the enzyme glucose oxidase (fungi) and glucose dehydrogenase (bacteria such as Gluconobacter). Microbial production of gluconic acid is the preferred method and it dates back to several decades. The most studied and widely used fermentation process involves the fungus Aspergillus niger. Gluconic acid and its derivatives, the principal being sodium gluconate, have wide applications in food and pharmaceutical industry. This article gives a review of microbial gluconic acid production, its properties and applications.
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- Perspectives of plant-associated microbes in heavy metal phytoremediation. (2012, background): “Several reviews describe organic acid biosynthesis and excretion mechanisms in bacteria and fungi (Ramachandran et al., 2006; Sauer et al., 2008) and these issues are not addressed in detail here.”