Industrial Biotechnology of Vitamins, Pigments, and Antioxidants

Vitamins are a group of physiologically very important, chemically quite complex organic compounds, that are essential for humans and animals. Some vitamins and other growth factors behave as antioxidants, while some can be considered as biopigments. As their chemical synthesis is laborious, their biotechnology–based synthesis and production via microbial fermentation has gained substantial interest within the last decades. Recent progress in microbial genetics and in metabolic engineering and implementation of innovative bioprocess technology has led to a biotechnology–based industrial production of many vitamins and related compounds. Divided into three sections, this volume covers: 1. water–soluble vitamins 2. fat–soluble vitamin compounds and 3. other growth factors, biopigments, and antioxidants. They are all reviewed systematically: from natural occurrence and assays, via biosynthesis, strain development, to industrially–employed biotechnological syntheses and applications. INDICE: Preface. Vitamins, Biopigments, Antioxidants and Related Compounds: A Historical, Physiological and (Bio)technological Perspective . . WATER SOLUBLE VITAMINS. Industrial Production of Vitamin B2 by Microbial Fermentation. Vitamin B3 (Niacin) . Pantothenic Acid. Vitamin B9, Folic Acid . Food Grade Vitamin B12 by Propionibacterium Species –. Physiology, Production and Application. Industrial Fermentation of Vitamin C . Direct Microbial Routes to Vitamin C Production. . FAT SOLUBLE VITAMINS. Beta–Carotene (with Bacteria). Beta?Carotene and other Carotenoids and Pigments from Micro–Algae. Microbial Production of Vitamin F and other Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids. Vitamin Q10: Property, Production and Application. Pyrroloquinolin Quinone (PQQ). . OTHER GROWTH FACTORS, BIOPIGMENTS, AND ANTIOXIDANTS. L–Carnitine, the Vitamin BT: Uses and Production by the Secondary Metabolism of Bacteria. Application of Carnosine and its Functionalized Derivatives. Metabolism and Biotechnological Production of Gamma–Aminobutyric Acid (GABA). Flavonoids: Functions, Metabolism and Biotechnology. Monascus Pigments.

• ISBN: 978-3-527-33734-7
• Editorial: Wiley VCH
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 560
• Fecha Publicación: 02/03/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés