Spoilage of Industrial Materials by Micro-organisms

Industrial development and evaluation of new protein sources: micro-organisms.

Animals normally eat the food provided by the environment in which they live. Intensive animal rearing practices have broken this pattern and animals now eat what is considered to be best by man, in both a nutritional and economic sense. Likewise, individual human populations have their own traditional dietary patterns which are dependent upon the availability of natural raw materials, imported...

Engineering primary metabolic pathways of industrial micro-organisms.

Metabolic engineering is a powerful tool for the optimisation and the introduction of new cellular processes. This is mostly done by genetic engineering. Since the introduction of this multidisciplinary approach, the success stories keep accumulating. The primary metabolism of industrial micro-organisms has been studied for long time and most biochemical pathways and reaction networks have been...

Biocatalysis: Industrial Enzymes and the Exploitation of Micro-organisms

Biocatalysis can be broadly defined as the use of biological molecules (usually enzymes) to catalyse specific chemical reactions. Enzymes are complex protein molecules. They are produced by living organisms to catalyse the biochemical reactions required for life. Although enzymes are formed within living cells, they can continue to function in vitro (in the test-tube) and their ability to perfo...

Utilization of S-adenosylmethionine by micro-organisms.

Shapiro, Stanley K. (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill.). Utilization of S-adenosylmethionine by microorganisms. J. Bacteriol. 83:169-174. 1962.-Two types of mutants of Aerobacter aerogenes that utilize S-adenosylmethionine for growth are described. One type also responds to methionine, 5'methylthioadenosine, or a combination of homocysteine and S-methylmethionine. The second type of mu...

The utilization of pyridine by micro-organisms.