Perspectives of plant-associated microbes in heavy metal phytoremediation

M Rajkumar, S Sandhya, MNV Prasad, H Freitas - Biotechnology advances, 2012 - Elsevier
" Phytoremediation" know-how to do-how is rapidly expanding and is being commercialized
by harnessing the phyto-microbial diversity. This technology employs biodiversity to …

Nano-gold catalysis in fine chemical synthesis

Y Zhang, X Cui, F Shi, Y Deng - Chemical Reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Gold has been used for coinage, jewelry, and other arts for thousands of years due to its
stability in air. Catalytic researchers were long misled by this common sense until the …

Production and effect of aldonic acids during enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulose at high dry matter content

D Cannella, CC Hsieh, C Felby, H Jørgensen - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2012 - Springer
Background The recent discovery of accessory proteins that boost cellulose hydrolysis has
increased the economical and technical efficiency of processing cellulose to bioethanol …

Botanical origin causes changes in nutritional profile and antioxidant activity of fermented products obtained from honey

GI Dezmirean, LA Mărghitaş, O Bobiş… - Journal of agricultural …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Honey as rich source of enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidants serves as health-
promoting nutrient in the human body. Here, we present the first time a comparative study of …

From a review of noble metal versus enzyme catalysts for glucose oxidation under conventional conditions towards a process design analysis for continuous-flow …

I Dencic, J Meuldijk, M de Croon… - Journal of flow chemistry, 2012 - akjournals.com
A methodology for the ex ante evaluation of different processing options is proposed.
Current processes for glucose oxidation and possible improvements using microreactor …

Switching industrial production processes from complex to defined media: method development and case study using the example of Penicillium chrysogenum

AE Posch, O Spadiut, C Herwig - Microbial Cell Factories, 2012 - Springer
Background Filamentous fungi are versatile cell factories and widely used for the production
of antibiotics, organic acids, enzymes and other industrially relevant compounds at large …

[HTML][HTML] Biosensor for determination of glucose in real samples of beverages

FM Lopes, KA Batista, GLA Batista… - Food Science and …, 2012 - SciELO Brasil
A biosensor was developed for spectrophotometric determination of glucose concentrations
in real samples of orange juice energetic drinks, and sport drinks. The biosensor consisted …

Immobilisation and characterisation of biocatalytic co-factor recycling enzymes, glucose dehydrogenase and NADH oxidase, on aldehyde functional ReSyn™ polymer …

BV Twala, BT Sewell, J Jordaan - Enzyme and microbial technology, 2012 - Elsevier
The use of enzymes in industrial applications is limited by their instability, cost and difficulty
in their recovery and re-use. Immobilisation is a technique which has been shown to …

Integrated biocatalytic process for trehalose production and separation from rice hydrolysate using a bioreactor system

SW Chang, PT Liu, LC Hsu, CS Chen, JF Shaw - Food chemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
Rice starch can be hydrolyzed into maltose for trehalose bioconversion by enzymatic
methods. In this study, we have successfully established an efficient production system for …

[PDF][PDF] Gluconic acid production from golden syrup by Aspergillus niger strain using semiautomatic stirred-tank fermenter

NK Purane, SK Sharma, PD Salunkhe… - J. Microb. Biochem …, 2012 - researchgate.net
The gluconic acid batch fermentation was conducted using mutant Aspergillus niger NCIM
530 strain under submerged condition in 50 L semiautomatic stirred-tank fermenter. Certain …