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Arun Goyal
Applied Microbiology
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Emerging Trends in Novel Technological Advancements in Oligosaccharide Production and Their Potential Applications as Prebiotics with Beneficial Effects
In the fast-growing global population, several health problems have arisen owing to bad lifestyles and consumption of unhealthy food. Prebiotics are a boon to reversing these ill effects and benefitting human ...
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Enzymes of Industrial Significance and Their Applications
Enzymes play an enormous role in enriching and saving various forms of life on earth including humans. Enzymes also called biological catalysts have immense applications in various industrial sectors such as b...
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Fundamentals and Industrial Applications of Modern Genetic Engineering
Biotechnological innovations have become crucial for the growth of three major industrial sectors of economy: fuel, pharmaceuticals and food. Genetic engineering utilizes various molecular biological technique...
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Commercial Production of Biohydrogen Using Microbes
Biohydrogen is a clean fuel, which can be produced through direct or indirect biophotolysis, photo-fermentation, and dark fermentation by microorganisms. In dark fermentation, organic waste degradation and hyd...
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Thermostable Enzymes from Clostridium thermocellum
The production of bioenergy from wastes attracts worldwide attention to overcome energy crisis and increasing pollution (Thakur et al., Microbial fermentation and enzyme technology, Taylor and Francis Group, B...
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Deciphering the mode of action, structural and biochemical analysis of heparinase II/III (PsPL12a) a new member of family 12 polysaccharide lyase from Pseudopedobacter saltans
Heparinases are widely used for production of clinically and therapeutically important bioactive oligosaccharides and in analyzing the polydisperse, heterogeneous, and complex structures of heparin/heparan sul...
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Isolation, purification and functional characterization of glucansucrase from probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum DM5
The probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum DM5 isolated from fermented beverage Marcha of Sikkim was explored for its ability to produce extracellular glucansucrase during fermentation. The strain L. plantarum DM5 dis...
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Probiotic Potential of Pediococcus pentosaceus CRAG3: A New Isolate from Fermented Cucumber
A novel strain of lactic acid bacterium isolated from fermented cucumber was selected due to its high glucansucrase activity. It was identified on the basis of 16S rRNA sequence analysis as Pediococcus pentosace...
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Anti-listerial Bactericidal Activity of Lactobacillus plantarum DM5 Isolated from Fermented Beverage Marcha
The strain Lactobacillus plantarum DM5 was isolated from fermented beverage Marcha of Sikkim and explored for its antagonistic activity against food-borne pathogens. The cell-free supernatant of L. plantarum DM5 ...
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Evolving Roles of Probiotics in Cancer Prophylaxis and Therapy
In nutraceutical science, the ingestible live microbes ‘probiotics’ are regarded for their ability to confer multiplicity of health benefits on the consumers. Wide spectrum impact of these friendly microbes on...
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Immobilization of glucansucrase for the production of gluco-oligosaccharides from Leuconostoc mesenteroides
Glucansucrase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides was immobilized in 1 % (w/v) with sodium alginate to produce oligosaccharides. Glucansucrase gave three activity bands of approx. 240, 178, and 165 kDa after periodic ...
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Lactic Acid Bacteria in Food Industry
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are known through ages for their wide applications in food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. But recently LAB have aroused interest for their ability to secrete extracellular...
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Functional oligosaccharides: production, properties and applications
Worldwide interest in oligosaccharides has been increasing ever since they were accorded the prebiotic status. The oligosaccharides of various origin like, bacteria, algae, fungi and higher plants have been us...
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Enhanced production of a novel dextran fromLeuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-640 by Response Surface Methodology
In our earlier study dextran produced byLeuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-640 was reported to possess novel food gelling and thickening properties (Puramaet al., 2009). In the present study response surface method...
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Recombinant lichenase fromClostridium thermocellum binds glucomannan but not to lichenan: Analysis by affinity electrophoresis
A family 26, glycoside hydrolase (GH26) named lichenase of the molecular size 30 kDa fromClostridium thermocellum previously cloned into an expression vector pET21a was over-expressed inEscherichia coli BL-21 cel...
