Green surfactants (biosurfactants): a petroleum-free substitute for Sustainability─ Comparison, applications, market, and future prospects

VS Nagtode, C Cardoza, HKA Yasin, SN Mali… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surfactants are a group of amphiphilic molecules (ie, having both hydrophobic and
hydrophilic domains) that are a vital part of nearly every contemporary industrial process …

Critical review on biosurfactant analysis, purification and characterization using rhamnolipid as a model biosurfactant

SJ Varjani, VN Upasani - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Surfactants are one of the most versatile group of chemicals used in various industrial
processes. Their market is competitive, and manufacturers will have to expand surfactant …

Extracellular polymeric substances of bacteria and their potential environmental applications

TT More, JSS Yadav, S Yan, RD Tyagi… - Journal of environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Biopolymers are considered a potential alternative to conventional chemical polymers
because of their ease of biodegradability, high efficiency, non-toxicity and non-secondary …

Biocontrol of Bacterial Leaf Blight of Rice and Profiling of Secondary Metabolites Produced by Rhizospheric Pseudomonas aeruginosa BRp3

S Yasmin, FY Hafeez, MS Mirza, M Rasul… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is widely prevalent and causes Bacterial Leaf Blight
(BLB) in Basmati rice grown in different areas of Pakistan. There is a need to use …

In vivo and In vitro Interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus spp.

A Hotterbeekx, S Kumar-Singh, H Goossens… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The significance of polymicrobial infections is increasingly being recognized especially in a
biofilm context wherein multiple bacterial species—including both potential pathogens and …

Rhamnolipids: diversity of structures, microbial origins and roles

AM Abdel-Mawgoud, F Lépine, E Déziel - Applied microbiology and …, 2010 - Springer
Rhamnolipids are glycolipidic biosurfactants produced by various bacterial species. They
were initially found as exoproducts of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

Biofilm dispersal: mechanisms, clinical implications, and potential therapeutic uses

JB Kaplan - Journal of dental research, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Like all sessile organisms, surface-attached communities of bacteria known as biofilms must
release and disperse cells into the environment to colonize new sites. For many pathogenic …

Biosurfactants: a sustainable replacement for chemical surfactants?

R Marchant, IM Banat - Biotechnology letters, 2012 - Springer
Glycolipid biosurfactants produced by bacteria and yeasts provide significant opportunities
to replace chemical surfactants with sustainable biologically produced alternatives in bulk …

Quinolones: from antibiotics to autoinducers

S Heeb, MP Fletcher, SR Chhabra… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Since quinine was first isolated, animals, plants and microorganisms producing a wide
variety of quinolone compounds have been discovered, several of which possess …

Rhamnolipids produced by Pseudomonas: from molecular genetics to the market

G Soberón‐Chávez, A González‐Valdez… - Microbial …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rhamnolipids are biosurfactants with a wide range of industrial applications that entered
into the market a decade ago. They are naturally produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa …