Microalgae-bacteria consortium for wastewater treatment and biomass production

L Aditya, TMI Mahlia, LN Nguyen, HP Vu… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The diversity of microalgae and bacteria allows them to form a complementary consortium
for efficient wastewater treatment and nutrient recovery. This review highlights the potential …

Microbial melanin: Recent advances in biosynthesis, extraction, characterization, and applications

S Singh, SB Nimse, DE Mathew, A Dhimmar… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Melanin is a common name for a group of biopolymers with the dominance of potential
applications in medical sciences, cosmeceutical, bioremediation, and bioelectronic …

Unraveling the structure and function of melanin through synthesis

W Cao, X Zhou, NC McCallum, Z Hu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Melanin is ubiquitous in living organisms across different biological kingdoms of life, making
it an important, natural biomaterial. Its presence in nature from microorganisms to higher …

[HTML][HTML] Phycobiliproteins: Structural aspects, functional characteristics, and biotechnological perspectives

J Dagnino-Leone, CP Figueroa, ML Castañeda… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phycobiliproteins (PBPs) are fluorescent proteins of various colors, including fuchsia, purple-
blue and cyan, that allow the capture of light energy in auxiliary photosynthetic complexes …

Bio-synthesis of food additives and colorants-a growing trend in future food

L Sun, F Xin, HS Alper - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
Food additives and colorants are extensively used in the food industry to improve food
quality and safety during processing, storage and packing. Sourcing of these molecules is …

Vibrio natriegens: an ultrafast‐growing marine bacterium as emerging synthetic biology chassis

J Hoff, B Daniel, D Stukenberg… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The marine bacterium Vibrio natriegens is the fastest‐growing non‐pathogenic bacterium
known to date and is gaining more and more attention as an alternative chassis organism to …

Allomelanin: A biopolymer of intrinsic microporosity

NC McCallum, FA Son, TD Clemons… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Melanin is a ubiquitous natural pigment found in a diverse array of organisms. Allomelanin
is a class of nitrogen-free melanin often found in fungi. Herein, we find artificial allomelanin …

Self-pigmenting textiles grown from cellulose-producing bacteria with engineered tyrosinase expression

KT Walker, IS Li, J Keane, VJ Goosens, W Song… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Environmental concerns are driving interest in postpetroleum synthetic textiles produced
from microbial and fungal sources. Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a promising sustainable …

Light-regulated gene expression in Bacteria: Fundamentals, advances, and perspectives

R Ohlendorf, A Möglich - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Numerous photoreceptors and genetic circuits emerged over the past two decades and now
enable the light-dependent ie, optogenetic, regulation of gene expression in bacteria …

Biosynthesis of melanin nanoparticles for photoacoustic imaging guided photothermal therapy

M Fu, Y Yang, Z Zhang, Y He, Y Wang, C Liu, X Xu… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photothermal therapy (PTT) has attracted considerable attention in recent years due to their
unique advantages in minimal invasiveness and spatiotemporal selectivity. However, the …