
New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Microbial Secondary Metabolites Biochemistry and Applications
Description
Key Features
- Compiles the latest developments in the area of microbial secondary metabolites
- Authored by the top international researchers in this area
- Includes information related to nearly all areas of a microbial secondary metabolites system
Readership
Bioengineers, Biochemical Engineers, Biochemists, Biotechnologists, food technologists, enzymologists, and related Professionals/ researchers. Graduate and postgraduate students, researchers and microbiologists, mycologists
Table of Contents
Section A. Chemistry and biosynthesis
1. Peptide and peptide-derivative antibiotics
2. Polyketide derivatives
3. Other groups of bioactive productsSection B. Genetics and bioengineering
1. Preparation of high production microorganisms
2. Genetic manipulation of secondary metabolites producers
3. Bioengineering of secondary metabolites
4. Secondary metabolites: from metabolic engineering to synthetic biology/Metabolomics for secondary metabolitesSection C. Obtaining new bioactive secondary metabolites
1. Isolation from natural resources
2. Producers of bioactive compounds
3. Semi-synthetic and synthetic bioactive products
4. Hybrid bioactive products and combinatorion biosynthesisSection D. Regulation of secondary metabolites production
1. Growth phases of microbial culture
2. Control of fermentation by basal nutrients
3. How signals from the medium are received
4. Regulation by low molecular compounds
5. Autoregulators
6. Regulation by metal ionsSection E. Resistance to secondary metabolites
1. Resistance of bioactive secondary metabolites producers
2. Resistance in pathogenic microorganisms
Product details
- No. of pages: 380
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: June 14, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780444635112
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444635044
About the Editors
Vijai Gupta

Affiliations and Expertise
Anita Pandey
Affiliations and Expertise
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