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Journal Article
New sustainable alternatives to reduce the production costs for surfactin 50 years after the discovery
2019
Overview
In 1968, Arima et al. discovered the heptapeptide, known as surfactin, which belongs to a family of lipopeptides. Known for its ability to reduce surface tension, it also has biological activities such as antimicrobial and antiviral. Its non-ribosomal synthesis mechanism was later discovered (1991). Lipopeptides represent an important class of surfactants, which can be applied in many industrial sectors such as food, pharmaceutical, agrochemicals, detergents, and cleaning products. Currently, 75% of the surfactants used in the various industrial sectors are from the petrochemical industry. Nevertheless, there are global current demands (green chemistry concept) to replace the petrochemical products with environmentally friendly products, such as surfactants by biosurfactants. The production biosurfactants still are costly. Thus, an alternative to reduce the production costs is using agro-industrial waste as a culture medium associated with an efficient and scalable purification process. This review puts a light on the agro-industrial residues used to produce surfactin and the techniques used for its recovery.
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Industrial Microbiology - economics
/ Industrial Microbiology - history
/ Industrial Microbiology - methods
/ Microbial Genetics and Genomics
/ Peptides, Cyclic - economics
/ Peptides, Cyclic - metabolism
/ Surface-Active Agents - economics
/ Surface-Active Agents - history
