Bacterial pigments: sustainable compounds with market potential for pharma and food industry

CK Venil, L Dufossé, P Renuka Devi - Frontiers in Sustainable Food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The continued universal application of synthetic colorants for decades have caused
environmental pollutions and human health vulnerabilities. So, it was indispensable to …

Advances in Chromobacterium violaceum and properties of violacein-Its main secondary metabolite: A review

N Durán, GZ Justo, M Durán, M Brocchi, L Cordi… - Biotechnology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Chromobacterium violaceum is important in the production of violacein, like other bacteria,
such as Alteromonas, Janthinobacterium, Pseudoalteromonas, Duganella, Collimonas and …

Biotechnological activities and applications of bacterial pigments violacein and prodigiosin

SY Choi, S Lim, K Yoon, JI Lee, RJ Mitchell - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Springer
In this review, we discuss violacein and prodigiosin, two chromogenic bacterial secondary
metabolites that have diverse biological activities. Although both compounds were …

Microbial synthesis of violacein pigment and its potential applications

HA Park, SA Park, YH Yang, KY Choi - Critical reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Violacein is a pigment synthesized by Gram-negative bacteria such as Chromobacterium
violaceum. It has garnered significant interest owing to its unique physiological and …

Microbial production of violacein and process optimization for dyeing polyamide fabrics with acquired antimicrobial properties

M Kanelli, M Mandic, M Kalakona, S Vasilakos… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In the present study, crude bacterial extract containing violacein is investigated for the
preparation of antimicrobial polyamide fabrics. The optimal culture conditions of …

Chromobacterium violaceum delivers violacein, a hydrophobic antibiotic, to other microbes in membrane vesicles

SY Choi, S Lim, G Cho, J Kwon, W Mun… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study describes Chromobacterium violaceum's use of extracellular membrane vesicles
(MVs) to both solubilize and transport violacein to other microorganisms. Violacein is a …

Production of fungal and bacterial pigments and their applications

S Sánchez-Muñoz, G Mariano-Silva, MO Leite… - … production of bioactive …, 2020 - Elsevier
With the rising demand for natural compounds, biological pigments have a great impact
because of their non-adverse effects in environment and on human health. Additionally, their …

Core rhizosphere microbiomes of dryland wheat are influenced by location and land use history

DC Schlatter, C Yin, S Hulbert… - Applied and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The Inland Pacific Northwest is one of the most productive dryland wheat
production areas in the United States. We explored the bacterial and fungal communities …

Multi-target drug with potential applications: violacein in the spotlight

N Durán, G Nakazato, M Durán, IR Berti… - World Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The aim of the current review is to address updated research on a natural pigment called
violacein, with emphasis on its production, biological activity and applications. New …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in synthetic, industrial and biological applications of violacein and its heterologous production

A Ahmed, A Ahmad, R Li, ALA Waleed… - … of Microbiology and …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Violacein, a purple pigment first isolated from a gram-negative coccobacillus
Chromobacterium violaceum, has gained extensive research interest in recent years due to …