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Towards commercial production of microbial surfactants.
Trends in biotechnology - 1 Nov 2006
Mukherjee Soumen, Das Palashpriya, Sen Ramkrishna
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Biosurfactants or microbial surfactants are surface-active biomolecules that are produced by a variety of microorganisms. Biosurfactants have gained importance in the fields of enhanced oil recovery, environmental bioremediation, food processing and pharmaceuticals owing to their unique properties--higher biodegradability, lower toxicity, and effectiveness at extremes of temperature, pH and salinity. However,...
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