Metabolic engineering has been enabling development of high performance microbial
strains for the efficient production of natural and non-natural compounds from renewable …

The continued universal application of synthetic colorants for decades have caused
environmental pollutions and human health vulnerabilities. So, it was indispensable to …

Pigments are an essential part of everyday life on Earth with rapidly growing industrial and
biomedical applications. Synthetic pigments account for a major portion of these pigments …

Extracellular vesicle (EV)-mediated communication between proximal and distant cells is a
highly conserved characteristic in all of the life domains, including bacteria. These vesicles …

Chromobacterium violaceum is important in the production of violacein, like other bacteria,
such as Alteromonas, Janthinobacterium, Pseudoalteromonas, Duganella, Collimonas and …

Chromobacterium violaceum is a gram-negative bacterium, which has been used widely in
microbiology labs involved in quorum sensing (QS) research. Among the QS-regulated traits …

Microbial pigments play multiple roles in the ecosystem construction, survival, and fitness of
all kinds of organisms. Considerably, microbial (bacteria, fungi, yeast, and microalgae) …

In this review, we discuss violacein and prodigiosin, two chromogenic bacterial secondary
metabolites that have diverse biological activities. Although both compounds were …

The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is firmly established as a host for the production of
recombinant proteins, frequently outperforming other heterologous hosts. Already, a …

Colors are added to food items to make them more attractive and appealing. Food colorants
therefore, have an impressive market due to the requirements of food industries. A variety of …