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Microbial production of biosurfactants by selected bacterial strains

KRATOCHVÍLOVÁ, O. PERNICOVÁ, I. OBRUČA, S.

Original Title

Type

abstract

Language

English

Original Abstract

Biosurfactants are amphiphilic molecules that have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties and which are excreted by microorganisms. They exhibit surface activity and have the ability to reduce interphase and surface tension by accumulation at the interfaces such as liquid/liquid, gas/liquid or solid/liquid interfaces. Over their chemical counterparts have biosurfactants a lot of advantages such as biodegradability, low toxicity, ecological acceptability and effectiveness at extreme temperature and pH. In addition, biosurfactants can be obtained using agroindustrial waste as a substrate which helping to reduce total production costs.

Keywords

biosurfactants, PHA

Authors

KRATOCHVÍLOVÁ, O.; PERNICOVÁ, I.; OBRUČA, S.

Released

13. 11. 2018

Publisher

Masarykova univerzita

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-210-9069-9

Book

XIX. setkání biochemiků a molekulárních biologů

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BibTex

@misc{BUT152204,
  author="Olga {Kratochvílová} and Iva {Buchtíková} and Stanislav {Obruča}",
  title="Microbial production of biosurfactants by selected bacterial strains",
  booktitle="XIX. setkání biochemiků a molekulárních biologů",
  year="2018",
  pages="66--66",
  publisher="Masarykova univerzita",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-210-9069-9",
  note="abstract"
}