Sara Lopes, Eva Fahr, João Costa, Andreia B Silva, M Manuel Lopes, Célia Faustino, Maria H L Ribeiro
Global environmental concerns drive research toward the development of new eco-friendly compounds to replace pollutant chemicals. This study focuses on optimizing the production of trehalose lipids (TLs), which are glycolipid biosurfactants (BS) with various applications like antimicrobial or surface tension reduction. New microorganism sources, growth conditions, medium composition, purification conditions, and physicochemical properties of TLs are studied. Addressing a microscale approach, TLs production was successfully achieved using Rhodotorula sp...
December 16, 2023: Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering