Cochinmicins I, II, III are novel peptolides produced in submerged-fermentation cultures of Microbispora sp. ATCC 55140. These closely related compounds are separated by HPLC and are novel competitive endothelin antagonists. Cochinmicins II and III are stereoisomeric to each other. Cochinmicin I is the deschloro analog of cochinmicin III.

The ardeemins are a new family of secondary metabolites produced by submerged fermentation of a fungus which was isolated from a soil sample collected in Brazil. Based on taxonomic studies, the producing culture was identified as Aspergillus fischeri var. brasiliensis strain AB 1826M-35. 5-N-Acetylardeemin potentiated the cytotoxicity of the anticancer agent vinblastine in multidrug resistant h...

Antibiotic G-418 is a new aminoglycoside produced as the major component by a new species of Micromonospora, M. rhodorangea NRRL 5326. The antibiotic is prepared by submerged fermentation in a soybean-dextrin medium. Antibiotic G-418 is adsorbed on a cationic-exchange resin and separated from other impurities by passing it down a Dowex (1 x 2) resin column. The antibiotic, which contains 2-deox...

Of the 34 fungal species, isolated from a number of oily substrates, 9 exhibited lipase activity. AU 15, identified as Aspergillus sp., was found to be excellent lipase producer in submerged fermentation and was selected for solid-state fermentation (SSF). Among substrates like oil cakes of coconut, groundnut and sesame, wheat rawa, bombay rawa and soya beans (crushed), wheat rawa showed the hi...

Fermentation is one of the industrially important processes for the development of microbial metabolites that has immense applications in various fields. This has prompted to employ fermentation as a major technique in the production of phytase from microbial source. In this study, a comparison was made between submerged (SmF) and solid-state fermentations (SSF) for the production of phytase fr...

Microbial cellulases are the enzymes widely studied due to their enormous applications in biochemical industry. Among 12 fungal isolates isolated from mangrove plant debris and soil sample collected from Valanthakad Mangroves, Kerala, India, 3 of them were found to exhibit cellulolytic activity. Among them, the most potent isolate which exhibited maximum cellulolytic activity was identified as ...

Aspergillus oryzae grown in submerged and solid state fermentations revealed a number of differences in molecular and physiological aspects that are correlated with the different growth conditions. First, the aerial hyphae that occur only in solid state fermentation are mainly responsible for oxygen uptake. Second, solid state fermentation is characterised by gradients in temperature, water act...

The purple-coloured pigment violacein, produced mainly by bacteria of the genus Chromobacterium, had attracted and increased interest owing to its important biological activities and pharmacological potential. In the present study experiments were designed to investigate the effect of different fermentation conditions on the violacein production by novel isolate Chromobacterium vaccinii CV5. Di...

Aspergillus niger FBT1, a local extracellular strain for tannase production, was isolated from soil collected from Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve in Perak, Malaysia. This fungus strain was cultivated in an Erlenmeyer flask under a submerged fermentation system. Medium compositions play a very important role in enhancing enzyme production during fermentation. The production of tannase by A. nige...

The main aim of this work consists in screening the optimal biotechnology of medicinal mushroom cultivation from the solid-state fermentation and the submerged one by using different kinds of wastes coming from cereal crop processing as well as the agro-food industry. The both fermentation technologies were tested through the controlled cultivation of the medicinal mushrooms Ganoderma lucidum a...