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Editorial: Sustainable production of bioactive pigments, volume II

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Wee Sim Choo, Laurent Dufossé, Lourdes Morales-Oyervides   +2 more
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Natural pigments: innovative extraction technologies and their potential application in health and food industries

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Natural pigments, or natural colorants, are frequently utilized in the food industry due to their diverse functional and nutritional attributes. Beyond their color properties, these pigments possess several biological activities, including antioxidant ...
Ayu Masyita, Gemala Hardinasinta, Ayun Dwi Astuti, Firdayani Firdayani, Dian Mayasari, Aki Hori, Ira Nur Ainun Nisha, Firzan Nainu, Takayuki Kuraishi   +8 more
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Biosynthesis of Pteridines in Insects: A Review

Insects
Pteridines are important cofactors for many biological functions of all living organisms, and they were first discovered as pigments of insects, mainly in butterfly wings and the eye and body colors of insects. Most of the information on their structures
Juan Ferré
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Chromatic symphony of fleshy fruits: functions, biosynthesis and metabolic engineering of bioactive compounds

Molecular Horticulture
Fleshy fruits are popular among consumers due to their significant nutritional value, which includes essential bioactive compounds such as pigments, vitamins, and minerals.
Huimin Hu, Nirakar Pradhan, Jianbo Xiao, Rui Xia, Pan Liao   +4 more
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Advances in biomanufacturing and recent biological applications of the fundamental bacterial carotenoids: a comprehensive review

Microbial Cell Factories
Many research teams have prioritized the investigation of the biotechnological production of carotenoids in the last few decades due to their multipurpose application.
Khaled B. Al-Monofy, Mahmoud H. Farghali, Lamiaa A. Al-Madboly, Amal M. Abo Kamer, Ahmed A. Abdelaziz   +4 more
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Biosynthetic Gene Clusters and Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Aryl Polyene Pigments from Chryseobacterium sp. kr6 and Lysobacter sp. A03

Colorants
Aryl polyene (APE) are bacterial pigments which show great biotechnological potential because of their biological activities. In this study, the presence of gene clusters associated with APE synthesis was investigated in the genome of Chryseobacterium sp.
Maria Elisa Pailliè-Jiménez, Jamile Queiroz Pereira, Eliseu Rodrigues, Adriano Brandelli   +3 more
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The Transformation of Pigment in Fruit Wine, Precise Control of Pigment Formation, and Their Effect on Product Quality

Foods
Global fruit production is excessive, and fruit wine is a significant outcome of fruit processing. The pigment in fruit wine gives it a vibrant color and affects its quality, taste, and marketing.
Xiang Tan, Mengfan Ding, Chen Wang, Linhua Huang, Junying Bai   +4 more
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[Pigment formation and other biological properties of staphylococci].

Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii, 1976
A comparison was made of the pigment-forming capacity and the enzymatic activity, growth rate, virulence and sensitivity to antibiotics and egg lysozyme in 397 pigment, 203 pigment-free strains of staphylococci and 24 pigment-free Staph aureus mutants. Pigment formation did not always correlate with the general biological activity of the cultures, the ...
L F, Bogdanova, G A, Petrushanskaia, T I, Afanas'eva, V A, Leonenko, V E, Solov'eva   +4 more
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Metabolite Profiling of Macroalgae: Biosynthesis and Beneficial Biological Properties of Active Compounds

Marine Drugs
Macroalgae are known as abundant sources of phytochemicals, which offer a plethora of beneficial biological properties. Besides being the most notable classes of compounds found in macroalgae, phlorotannins, bromophenols, and terpenoids comprise some of ...
Maria Carpena, Cláudia S. G. P. Pereira, Aurora Silva, Paula Barciela, A. Olivia S. Jorge, Ana Perez-Vazquez, Antia G. Pereira, João C. M. Barreira, M. Beatriz P. P. Oliveira, Miguel A. Prieto   +9 more
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Oral Pigmentation - A Review

Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2003
Pigments are defined as substances occuring in living matter, which absorb visible light. They are substances, which possess colour of thier own in their natural state.
Nalin Kumar, T R Saraswathi
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