7.1 Introduction 7. 2 Origin and composition 7.3 Exopolysaccharide structure 7. 4 Medium composition for exopolysaccharide production

8. 1 Introduction 8.2 Essential and nonessential amino acid 8. 3 Stereochemistry of amino acids 8. 4 Amino acid fermentation 8.5 Recovery of the amino acid from the fermentation broth

Continuous. Unlike batch it is not possible to identify all of the materials involved in the fermentation run

6.1 An introduction to antibiotics 6. 2 General strategies for the production of antibiotics 6.3 a brief history of penicillin production 6.4 Antibacterial mode of action of B-lactam antibiotics 6.5 Biosynthesis of penicillins and cephalosporins

5.1 Introduction 5.2 Metabolic pathways and metabolic control mechanisms 5.3 The industrial production of citric acid 5.4 The production of other TCA cycle intermediates 5.5 The industrial production of itaconic acid

4.1 Introduction 4.2 Conventional protein sources 4.3 Single cell protein 4.4 Substrates for SCP production 4.5 Micro-organisms for SCP production 4.6 SCP from carbon dioxide 4.7 SCP from carbohydrates 4.8 SCP from hydrocarbons and derivatives

9.1 Introduction 9.2 The structure, roles and abundance of sterols and steroids 9.3 Selective degradation of the sterol side chain

1 An introduction to biotechnological innovations Industry G. Mijnbeek and C. K. Leach 2 Biocatalyst in organic chemical synthesis R O. Jenkins 3 Efficiency of growth and product formation R.O. Jenkins

An introduction to biotechnological innovations in the chemical industry 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Production processes 1.3 Choice of production process

3.1 Amino Acids 75 acids, covalently linked in characteristic linear sequences 3.2 Peptides and Proteins 85 Because each of these amino acids has a side chain with 3.3 Working with Proteins 89 distinctive chemical properties, this group of 20 pre cursor molecules may be regarded as the alphabet in