Principles of halal-compliant fermentations: Microbial alternatives for the halal food industry

E Karahalil - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Microbial food ingredients produced using biotechnology have a wide range of
applications in the food industry. With new technological improvements such as genetic …

Biofilm reactors for value-added products production: an in-depth review

M Germec, A Demirci, I Turhan - Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Biofilms in the environment can both detrimental and beneficial effects. On the other hand,
biofilms can be useful for wastewater treatment, bioremediation, and removal of toxic …

Bioconversion of wheat bran into high value-added products and modelling of fermentations

M Germec, A Ozcan, I Turhan - Industrial Crops and Products, 2019 - Elsevier
The objectives of this study were to determine the particle size of wheat bran (WB), to
optimize the pretreatment conditions of WB and to produce ethanol (EtOH), lactic acid (LA) …

Challenges of influencing cellular morphology by morphology engineering techniques and mechanical induced stress on filamentous pellet systems—A critical review

M Böl, K Schrinner, S Tesche… - Engineering in life …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Filamentous microorganisms are main producers of organic acids, enzymes, and
pharmaceutical agents such as antibiotics and other active pharmaceutical ingredients. With …

A current approach to the control of filamentous fungal growth in media: microparticle enhanced cultivation technique

E Karahalil, HB Coban, I Turhan - Critical reviews in biotechnology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Various strategies have been carried out to date in order to overcome the problem of the
adverse effects of bulk fungal growth in bioreactors. Nevertheless, previous conventional …

Effect of microparticles on fungal fermentation for fermentation-based product productions

A Iram, A Özcan, E Yatmaz, İ Turhan, A Demirci - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ranging from simple food ingredients to complex pharmaceuticals, value-added products
via microbial fermentation have many advantages over their chemically synthesized …

Inulinase production and mathematical modeling from carob extract by using Aspergillus niger

M Ilgın, M Germec, I Turhan - Biotechnology progress, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The main objectives of the study were to produce inulinase from carob extract by Aspergillus
niger A42 (ATCC 204447) and to model the inulinase fermentation in the optimum carob …

Effects and interactions of metal oxides in microparticle‐enhanced cultivation of filamentous microorganisms

AR Laible, A Dinius, M Schrader, R Krull… - Engineering in life …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Filamentous microorganisms are used as molecular factories in industrial biotechnology. In
2007, a new approach to improve productivity in submerged cultivation was introduced …

Optimization of dilute acid pretreatment of barley husk and oat husk and determination of their chemical composition

F Demirel, M Germec, HB Coban, I Turhan - Cellulose, 2018 - Springer
The pretreatment of renewable resources is the first step to make them metabolically
available for microorganisms for generation of value-added products by fermentation. In this …

Optimization and kinetic modeling of media composition for hyaluronic acid production from carob extract with Streptococcus zooepidemicus

A Ozcan, M Germec, I Turhan - Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Hyaluronic acid (HA), a mucopolysaccharide belonging to the glycosaminoglycan family,
consists of repeating disaccharide units and has been used directly or indirectly in …