Driven by the need to engineer robust surface coatings for medical devices to prevent infection and sepsis, incorporation of nanoparticles has surfaced as a promising avenue to enhance non-fouling efficacy. Microbial synthesis of such nanoscale metallic structures is of substantive interest as this can offer an eco-friendly, cost-effective, and sustainable route for further development. Here we...

Biosurfactants are amphipathic molecules with growing worldwide interest because of their low toxicity, high biodegradability and good ecological acceptability. They produced by microorganisms between them, filamentous fungi belonging Mucorales order have been reported as promising producers. However, most these studies still use traditional submerged fermentation, a methodology technical econo...

Background and Objectives: Cellulase is an important enzyme with multiple applications in industries, including food, laundry, pharmaceutical, textile, pulp, paper and biofuel industries. Solid-state fermentation (SSF) is a method for cellulase production, which includes several advantages, compared to submerged fermentation. In this study, cellulase was produced by three filamentous fungi, i.e...

The automated Bioscreen C system was used for growth of four Mucor hiemalis strains isolated from the soil in the Juréia-Itatins Ecology Station (JIES), São Paulo state, in liquid culture media containing different carbon (2%) and nitrogen (1%) sources, pH 5.0, at 25oC, and agitated at 150 rpm for 5 days. The medium containing only one nitrogen source had been added with 2% glucose. The reading...

Introduction Available evidence on carotenoid biosynthesis indicates that a general pathway is utilized in all carotenogenic systems, at least in the primary stages (Jensen 1965). The sequential dehydrogenation of the colorless Co precurs~rs to the colored carotenes has been extensively studied in the photosynthe ... t":'"ic----........bacteria (Stanier 1959) and appears to follow the Porter-Li...