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Industrial biotechnology of vitamins, biopigments, 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 b...
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| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Weinheim, Germany :
Wiley-VCH,
[2016]
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| Online Access: | Full-text access View in OPAC |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (581 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783527681754 3527681752 9783527681761 3527681760 3527337342 9783527337347 9783527681778 3527681779 9783527681785 3527681787 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/9783527681754 |