Biosurfactants

Section I.. Screening, Genetics and Biophysics

1. Screening Concepts for the Isolation of Biosurfactant Producing Microorganisms
Vanessa Walter, Christoph Syldatk, Rudolf Hausmann

2. Molecular Genetics of Biosurfactant Synthesis in Microorganisms
Surekha K. Satpute, Smita S. Bhuyan, Karishma R. Pardesi, Shilpa S. Mujumdar, Prashant K. Dhakephalkar, Ashvini M. Shete, Balu A. Chopade

3. Interaction of Dirhamnolipid Biosurfactants with Phospholipid Membranes: A Molecular Level Study
Antonio Ortiz, Francisco J. Aranda, Jose A. Teruel

Section II.. Properties And Potentialapplications

4. Microbial Surfactants and Their Potential Applications: An Overview
Ashis K. Mukherjee, Kishore Das

5. Microbial Biosurfactants and Biodegradation
Owen P. Ward

6. Biomedical and therapeutic applications of biosurfactants
Lígia R. Rodrigues, José A. Teixeira

7. Microbial Surfactants of Marine Origin: Potentials and Prospects
Palashpriya Das, Soumen Mukherjee, C. Sivapathasekaran, Ramkrishna Sen

8. Biomimetic Amphiphiles: Properties and Potential Use
S. K. Mehta, Shweta Sharma, Neena Mehta, Swaranjit Singh Cameotra

9. Applications of Biological Surface Active Compounds in Remediation Technologies
Andrea Franzetti, Elena Tamburini, Ibrahim M. Banat

10. Possibilities and Challenges for Biosurfactants Use in Petroleum Industry
Amedea Perfumo, Ivo Rancich, Ibrahim M. Banat

11. Bacterial Biosurfactants, and Their Role in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR)
J. M. Khire

Section III.. Biosurfactant Production

12. Molecular Engineering Aspects for the Production of New and Modified Biosurfactants
Alexander Koglin, Volker Doetsch, Frank Bernhard

13. Rhamnolipid Surfactants: Alternative Substrates, New Strategies
Maria Benincasa, Anam Marqués, Aurora Pinazo, Angels Manresa

14. Selected Microbial Glycolipids: Production, Modification and Characterization
Olof Palme, Anja Moszyk, Dimitri Iphöfer, Siegmund Lang

15. Production of Microbial Biosurfactants by Solid-State Cultivation
Nadia Krieger, Doumit Camilios Neto, David Alexander Mitchell

16. Rhamnolipid Biosurfactants: Production and their Potential in Environmental Biotechnology
Orathai Pornsunthorntawee, Panya Wongpanit, Ratana Rujiravanit

17. Biosurfactant’s Role in Bioremediation of NAPL and Fermentative Production
Sanket J. Joshi, Anjana J. Desai

18. Biosurfactants from Yeasts: Characteristics, Production and Application
Priscilla F. F. Amaral, Maria Alice Z. Coelho, Isabel M. J. Marrucho, João A. P. Coutinho

19. Environmentally Friendly Biosurfactants Produced by Yeasts
Galba M. Campos-Takaki, Leonie Asfora Sarubbo, Clarissa Daisy C. Albuquerque

20. Synthesis of Biosurfactants and Their Advantages to Microorganisms and Mankind
Swaranjit Singh Cameotra, Randhir S. Makkar, Jasminder Kaur, S. K. Mehta

21. Enrichment and Purification of Lipopeptide Biosurfactants
Simon C. Baker, Chien-Yen Chen

22. Production of Surface Active Compounds by Biocatalyst Technology
Smita Sachin Zinjarde, Mahua Ghosh

Section IV.. The Most Studied Biosurfactants

23. Structural and Molecular Characteristics of Lichenysin and Its Relationship with Surface Activity
Nerurkar Anuradha S.

24. Surfactin: Biosynthesis, Genetics and Potential Applications
Ramkrishna Sen

Keywords: Biomedicine, Biomedicine general