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Biotechnological Applications of Microbial Pigments

, 2023
Microbial pigments have many structures and functions with excellent characteristics, such as being biodegradable, non-toxic, and ecologically friendly, constituting an important source of pigments. Industrial production presents a bottleneck in production cost that restricts large-scale commercialization.
João Vitor de Oliveira Barreto, Livia Marques Casanova, Athayde Neves Junior, Maria Cristina Pinheiro Pereira Reis Mansur, Alane Beatriz Vermelho   +4 more
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Colorful Treasure From Agro-Industrial Wastes: A Sustainable Chassis for Microbial Pigment Production

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Colors with their attractive appeal have been an integral part of human lives and the easy cascade of chemical catalysis enables fast, bulk production of these synthetic colorants with low costs.
Jasneet Grewal, Mikołaj Woła̧cewicz, Weronika Pyter, Namrata Joshi, Lukasz Drewniak, Kumar Pranaw   +5 more
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Actinomycin X2, an Antimicrobial Depsipeptide from Marine-Derived Streptomyces cyaneofuscatus Applied as a Good Natural Dye for Silk Fabric

Marine Drugs, 2021
Actinomycins as clinical medicine have been extensively studied, while few investigations were conducted to discover the feasibility of actinomycins as antimicrobial natural dye contributing to the medical value of the functional fabrics.
Wei Chen, Kaixiong Ye, Xiaoji Zhu, Huihui Zhang, Ranran Si, Jianing Chen, Zijun Chen, Kaili Song, Zhicheng Yu, Bingnan Han   +9 more
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Immunological efficiency of microbial melanin on bacterial pathogenicity. [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Cancer and Biomedical Research, 2020
In our present study, the immunological efficiency of brown Mel1 extracted from Streptomyces longisporoflavus NR043926 and black Mel2 extracted from Aspergillus niger MT355517 on bacterial pathogenicity was investigated.
Nanis Allam, Eman Abd El-Zaher, Asmaa allam   +2 more
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Pigment Production by Paracoccus spp. Strains through Submerged Fermentation of Valorized Lignocellulosic Wastes

Fermentation, 2022
Due to the increasing emphasis on the circular economy, research in recent years has focused on the feasibility of using biomass as an alternative energy source.
Weronika Pyter, Jasneet Grewal, Dariusz Bartosik, Lukasz Drewniak, Kumar Pranaw   +4 more
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Comparing productivity and tolerance of melanin-producing Streptomyces longisporoflavus and Aspergillus niger under biosorption capacity [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Cancer and Biomedical Research, 2021
Background: Melanin (Mel) is a naturally occurring pigment made by some microorganisms. Streptomyces sp and Aspergillus niger are capable of producing a high quantity of brown (Mel1) - black (Mel2) intercellular Mel pigments.
Eman Abd El-Zaher, Nanis Allam, Asmaa Allam   +2 more
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Pigments from Microorganisms: A Sustainable Alternative for Synthetic Food Coloring

Fermentation
Microbial pigments are gaining acceptance as a green, sustainable substitute for synthetic food pigments due to growing health issues and their adverse health impacts.
Akshay Chavan, Jaya Pawar, Umesh Kakde, Mekala Venkatachalam, Mireille Fouillaud, Laurent Dufossé, Sunil Kumar Deshmukh   +6 more
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Microbial Pigments-A Short Review

IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology, 2016
Color is the main feature of any food item as it enhances the appeal and acceptability of food. In the recent years, coloring of food with pigments produced from natural sources is of worldwide interest and is gaining importance. Several types of dyes are available in the market as colouring agents to food commodities but biocolorants are now gaining ...
Dr. D. Sarvamangala, S.S.V. Aparna
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Caspase mediated cytotoxicity of a yellow pigment produced by Exiguobacterium alkaliphilum on human cancer cell lines [PDF]

Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research, 2020
Context: Investigation of microbial diversity for the identification of novel bioactive compounds or therapeutics is a more potential and incessant ongoing process for drug development research.
Bharath Gajaraj, Varalakshmi Nadumane
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Marine Bacteria Is the Cell Factory to Produce Bioactive Pigments: A Prospective Pigment Source in the Ocean

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020
The course of investigations of bioactive compounds like bacterial pigments from the marine environment has greatly expanded in the recent decades.
Palanivel Velmurugan, Chidambaram Kulandaisamy Venil, Arumugam Veera Ravi, Laurent Dufossé   +3 more
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