SECTION I. SCREENING, GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS
1 SCREENING CONCEPTS FOR THE ISOLATION OF BIOSURFACTANT
PRODUCING MICROORGANISMS ..................................... 1
Vanessa Walter, Christoph Syldatk and Rudolf Hausmann
2 MOLECULAR GENETICS OF BIOSURFACTANT SYNTHESIS
IN MICROORGANISMS ........................................... 14
Surekha K. Satpute, Smita S. Bhuyan, Karishma R. Pardesi,
Shilpa S. Mujumdar, Prashant K. Dhakephalkar, Ashvini
M. Shete and Balu A. Chopade
3 INTERACTION OF DIRHAMNOLIPID BIOSURFACTANTS WITH
PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANES: A MOLECULAR LEVEL STUDY ............. 42
Antonio Ortiz, Francisco J. Aranda and Jose A. Teruel
SECTION II. PROPERTIES AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS
4 MICROBIAL SURFACTANTS AND THEIR POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS:
AN OVERVIEW ................................................. 54
Ashis K. Mukherjee and Kishore Das
5 MICROBIAL BIOSURFACTANTS AND BIODEGRADATION ................. 65
Owen P. Ward
6 BIOMEDICAL AND THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF BIOSURFACTANTS ... 75
Lígia R. Rodrigues and José A. Teixeira
7 MICROBIAL SURFACTANTS OF MARINE ORIGIN: POTENTIALS AND
PROSPECTS ................................................... 88
Palashpnya Das, Soumen Mukherjee, С. Sivapathasekaran and
Ramknshna Sen
8 BIOMIMETIC AMPHIPHILES: PROPERTIES AND POTENTIAL USE ....... 102
S.K. Mehta, Shweta Sharma, Neena Mehta and Swaranjit
Singh Cameotra
9 APPLICATIONS OF BIOLOGICAL SURFACE ACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN
REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES ................................... 121
Andrea Franzetti, Elena Tamburini and Ibrahim M. Banat
10 POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR BIOSURFACTANTS
USE IN PETROLEUM INDUSTRY .................................. 135
Amedea Perfumo, Ivo Rancich and Ibrahim M. Banat
11 BACTERIAL BIOSURFACTANTS, AND THEIR ROLE IN MICROBIAL
ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (MEOR) ............................... 146
J.M. Khire
SECTION III. BIOSURFACTANT PRODUCTION
12 MOLECULAR ENGINEERING ASPECTS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF NEW
AND MODIFIED BIOSURFACTANTS ................................ 158
Alexander Koglin, Volker Doetsch and Frank Bernhard
13 RHAMNOLIPID SURFACTANTS: ALTERNATIVE SUBSTRATES, NEW
STRATEGIES ................................................. 170
Maria Benincasa, AnaMa Marqués, Aurora Pinazo and Angels
Manresa
14 SELECTED MICROBIAL GLYCOLIPIDS: PRODUCTION, MODIFICATION
AND CHARACTERIZATION ....................................... 185
Olof Palme, Anja Moszyk, Dimitri Iphöfer and Siegmund
Lang
15 PRODUCTION OF MICROBIAL BIOSURFACTANTS BY SOLID-STATE
CULTIVATION ................................................ 203
Nadia Krieger, Doumit Camilios Neto and David Alexander
Mitchell
16 RHAMNOLIPID BIOSURFACTANTS: PRODUCTION AND THEIR
POTENTIAL IN ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ................... 211
Orathai Pornsunthorntawee, Panya Wongpanit and Ratana
Rujiravanit
17 BIOSURFACTANT'S ROLE IN BIOREMEDIATION OF NAPL AND
FERMENTATIVE PRODUCTION .................................... 222
Sanket J. Joshi and Anjana J. Desai
18 BIOSURFACTANTS FROM YEASTS: CHARACTERISTICS, PRODUCTION
AND APPLICATION ............................................ 236
Priscilla F.F. Amaral, Maria Alice Z. Coelho, Isabel M.J.
Marrucho, and João A.P. Coutinho
19 ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BIOSURFACTANTS PRODUCED BY
YEASTS ..................................................... 250
Galba M. Campos-Takaki, Leonie Asfora Sarubbo and
Clarissa Daisy С. Albuquerque
20 SYNTHESIS OF BIOSURFACTANTS AND THEIR ADVANTAGES
TO MICROORGANISMS AND MANKIND .............................. 261
Swaranjit Singh Cameotra, Randhir S. Makkar, Jasminder
Kaur and S.K. Mehta
21 ENRICHMENT AND PURIFICATION OF LIPOPEPTIDE
BIOSURFACTANTS ............................................. 281
Simon С. Baker and Chien-Yen Chen
22 PRODUCTION OF SURFACE ACTIVE COMPOUNDS BY BIOCATALYST
TECHNOLOGY ................................................. 289
Smita Sachin Zinjarde and Mahua Ghosh
SECTION IV. THE MOST STUDIED BIOSURFACTANTS
23 STRUCTURAL AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERISTICS OF LICHENYSIN
AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SURFACE ACTIVITY ................. 304
Anuradha S. Nerurkar
24 SURFACTIN: BIOSYNTHESIS, GENETICS AND POTENTIAL
APPLICATIONS ............................................... 316
Ramkrishna Sen
INDEX ......................................................... 325
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