Microbial biosurfactants have attracted the attention of researchers and companies for the
last decades, as they are considered promising candidates to replace chemical surfactants …

Prokaryotic organisms frequently use riboswitches to quantify intracellular metabolite
concentration via high-affinity metabolite receptors. Riboswitches possess a metabolite …

Bacillus subtilis is described as a promising production strain for lipopeptides. In the case of
B. subtilis strains JABs24 and DSM10T, surfactin and plipastatin are produced. Lipopeptide …

Introduction: B. velezensis strains are of interest in agricultural applications due to their
beneficial interactions with plants, notable through their antimicrobial activity. The biocontrol …

Surfactin, which is composed of a β‐hydroxy fatty acid chain and a peptide ring, has drawn
considerable attention due to its potential applications in the biomedicine, bioremediation …

The complex regulatory network in Bacillus, known as quorum sensing, offers many
opportunities to modify bacterial gene expression and hence to control bioprocesses. One …

Recently, several reports showed that n-alkanes were abundant in the hadal zone,
suggesting that n-alkanes could be an important source of nutrients for microorganisms in …

In Bacillus fermentation processes, severe foam formation may occur in aerated bioreactor
systems caused by surface-active lipopeptides. Although they represent interesting …

Wild-type cultivations are of invaluable relevance for industrial biotechnology when it comes
to the agricultural or food sector. Here, genetic engineering is hardly applicable due to legal …

Microbial biosurfactants are considered environmentally friendly alternatives to synthetic
surfactants in numerous applications. One of the main bottlenecks to their widespread use is …