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A novel medium for the enhanced cell growth and production of prodigiosin from Serratia marcescens isolated from soil.

2004; BioMed Central; Volume: 4; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/1471-2180-4-11

ISSN

1471-2180

Autores

Anuradha Vivekanandan Giri, Nandini Anandkumar, Geetha Muthukumaran, Gautam Pennathur,

Tópico(s)

Fungal Biology and Applications

Resumo

Prodigiosin produced by Serratia marcescens is a promising drug owing to its reported characteristics of having antifungal, immunosuppressive and antiproliferative activity. From an industrial point of view the necessity to obtain a suitable medium to simultaneously enhance the growth of Serratia marcescens and the pigment production was the aim of this work. The usage of individual fatty acid as substrate in industries would be cost-effective in the long run and this paved the way for us to try the effect of different fatty acid-containing seeds and oils of peanut, sesame and coconut as source of substrate.

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