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Diverse Effects of Amino Acids on Monascus Pigments Biosynthesis in Monascus purpureus. [PDF]

Front Microbiol, 2022
Amino acids could act as nitrogen sources, amido group donors, or bioactive molecules in fungi fermentation, and consequently, play important roles in Monascus pigments (MPs) biosynthesis. But the understanding of the effects of various amino acids on MPs biosynthesis is still incomprehensive.
Yin S, Zhu Y, Zhang B, Huang B, Jia R.
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Inorganic Selenium Transformation into Organic Selenium by Monascus purpureus. [PDF]

Foods, 2023
Selenium (Se) is a trace element that plays a crucial role in metabolism; a lack of selenium reduces the body’s resistance and immunity, as well as causes other physiological problems. In this study, we aim to identify favorable conditions for improving organic selenium production. The functional microbe Monascus purpureus, which is widely used in food
Sun N, Dang H, Zhang Y, Yang M, Zhang W, Zhao Y, Zhang H, Ji H, Zhang B.   +8 more
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Investigation of monacolin K, yellow pigments, and citrinin production capabilities of Monascus purpureus and Monascus ruber (Monascus pilosus). [PDF]

J Food Drug Anal, 2023
Red mold rice (RMR) is a traditional Chinese medicine prepared using Monascus fermentation. Monascus ruber ( pilosus) and Monascus purpureus have a long history of use as food and medicine. As an economically important starter culture, the relationship between the taxonomy of Monascus and production capabilities of secondary metabolites is crucial for ...
Lin TS, Chiu SH, Chen CC, Lin CH.
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Effect of γ-Heptalactone on the Morphology and Production of Monascus Pigments and Monacolin K in Monascus purpureus. [PDF]

J Fungi (Basel), 2022
Monascus is used widely in Asian countries and produces various biologically active metabolites, such as Monascus pigments (MPs) and monacolin K (MK). In this study, the effect of γ-heptalactone on secondary metabolites and mycelial growth during Monascus purpureus M1 fermentation was investigated. After the addition of 50 μM γ-heptalactone, the yields
Shi R, Luo Q, Liu Y, Chen W, Wang C.
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Optimization of Monascus Pigment Production on Date Waste Substrates Using Solid State Fermentation

Applied Food Biotechnology, 2021
Background and Objective: Monascus purpureus can produce pigments with light yellow to dark red colors. It includes several health properties. In this study, a low-cost process has been developed for the production of natural pigments from filamentous ...
Mahshid Asghari, Mahshid Jahadi, Farideh Hesam, Nafiseh Ghasemi-Sepro   +3 more
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Production of angkak through co-culture of Monascus purpureus and Monascus ruber [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 2010
Angkak (red mold rice, red yeast rice, Chinese red rice) is a traditional Chinese medicine produced by solid-state fermentation of cooked non-glutinous rice with Monascus species. The secondary metabolite of Monascus species, monacolin K /lovastatin, has been proven to lower blood lipid levels. In this study, a co-culture of Monascus purpureus MTCC 369
Panda, Bibhu Prasad, Javed, Saleem, Ali, Mohd   +2 more
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Insight into the phylogeny and metabolic divergence of Monascus species (M. pilosus, M. ruber, and M. purpureus) at the genome level

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
BackgroundSpecies of the genus Monascus are economically important and widely used in the production of food colorants and monacolin K. However, they have also been known to produce the mycotoxin citrinin.
Zhiyu Zhang, Zhiyu Zhang, Mengfei Cui, Mengfei Cui, Panting Chen, Panting Chen, Juxing Li, Juxing Li, Zhitao Mao, Yufeng Mao, Zhenjing Li, Zhenjing Li, Qingbin Guo, Qingbin Guo, Changlu Wang, Changlu Wang, Xiaoping Liao, Xiaoping Liao, Huanhuan Liu, Huanhuan Liu   +19 more
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Optimizing Submerged Cultivation for the Production of Red Pigments by Monascus purpureus on Soybean Meals using Response Surface Methodology

Applied Food Biotechnology, 2020
Background and objective: Monascus purpureus is a filamentous fungus with ability to produce pigments with therapeutic properties. Red pigments are especially used as additives, antioxidants, preservatives and substitutions for nitrites in food ...
Hadiseh Keivani, Mahshid Jahadi, Nafiseh Ghasemisepero   +2 more
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Improvement of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis by Monascus purpureus using Gamma Irradiation [PDF]

Research Journal of Applied Biotechnology, 2015
Aqueous dispersion of highly stable silver nanoparticles were synthesized using gamma irradiation with Monascus purpureus supernatant molecules as reducing and stabilizing agent.
Ahmed El-Batal, Ashraf El-Baz, Farag Abomosalam, Ahmed Tayel   +3 more
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Quantification of Lovastatin Produced by Monascus purpureus [PDF]

The Open Biotechnology Journal, 2015
Development of a novel method for the quantification of lovastatin is an interesting problem in the analytical field. In the literature, many reports use spectrophotometric method for the quantification of lovastatin. However, the analysis of fermentation broth containing lovastatin appears to be inaccurate using spectrophotometric method.
Tapobrata Panda, A. Seenivasan, Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi, Thomas Théodore   +3 more
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