| Title |
Use of sustainable chemistry to produce an acyl amino acid surfactant
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, January 2010
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00253-009-2431-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gabriel O. Reznik, Prashanth Vishwanath, Michelle A. Pynn, Joy M. Sitnik, Jeffrey J. Todd, Jun Wu, Yan Jiang, Brendan G. Keenan, Andrew B. Castle, Richard F. Haskell, Temple F. Smith, Ponisseril Somasundaran, Kevin A. Jarrell |
| Abstract |
Surfactants find wide commercial use as foaming agents, emulsifiers, and dispersants. Currently, surfactants are produced from petroleum, or from seed oils such as palm or coconut oil. Due to concerns with CO(2) emissions and the need to protect rainforests, there is a growing necessity to manufacture these chemicals using sustainable resources In this report, we describe the engineering of a native nonribosomal peptide synthetase pathway (i.e., surfactin synthetase), to generate a Bacillus strain that synthesizes a highly water-soluble acyl amino acid surfactant, rather than the water insoluble lipopeptide surfactin. This novel product has a lower CMC and higher water solubility than myristoyl glutamate, a commercial surfactant. This surfactant is produced by fermentation of cellulosic carbohydrate as feedstock. This method of surfactant production provides an approach to sustainable manufacturing of new surfactants. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Taiwan | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 104 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 19% |
| Researcher | 14 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 17% |
| Unknown | 17 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 24 | 21% |
| Chemistry | 23 | 21% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 11% |
| Engineering | 7 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 21 | 19% |
| Unknown | 20 | 18% |
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