Filamentous fungi for production of food additives and processing aids.
Adv Biochem Eng Biotechnol
; 111: 99-147, 2008.
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ABSTRACT
Filamentous fungi are metabolically versatile organisms with a very wide distribution in nature. They exist in association with other species, e.g. as lichens or mycorrhiza, as pathogens of animals and plants or as free-living species. Many are regarded as nature's primary degraders because they secrete a wide variety of hydrolytic enzymes that degrade waste organic materials. Many species produce secondary metabolites such as polyketides or peptides and an increasing range of fungal species is exploited commercially as sources of enzymes and metabolites for food or pharmaceutical applications. The recent availability of fungal genome sequences has provided a major opportunity to explore and further exploit fungi as sources of enzymes and metabolites. In this review chapter we focus on the use of fungi in the production of food additives but take a largely pre-genomic, albeit a mainly molecular, view of the topic.
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Probióticos
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Aditivos Alimentares
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Manipulação de Alimentos
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Microbiologia de Alimentos
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Fungos
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En
Ano de publicação:
2008
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Article