Chapter title |
Steroid Bioconversions
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Chapter number | 1 |
Book title |
Microbial Steroids
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, July 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7183-1_1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7182-4, 978-1-4939-7183-1
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Authors |
Marina V. Donova |
Abstract |
Steroid modifications by selected wild-type and engineered strains of microorganisms became an effective tool for the production of high-valued steroidal drugs and their precursors for the pharmaceutical industry. Some microorganisms are effective at the performance of sterol side-chain degradation, oxyfunctionalization of steroid core, and redox reactions at different positions of the steroid molecule. A number of bioprocesses using steroid-transforming microbial strains are well established on an industrial level. Although a range of biocatalytic methods has been developed, selection of suitable microorganisms, as well as creation of new engineered strains, is of great importance for generation of improved bioprocesses and production schemes for obtaining known and new metabolites with potent biological activity. The achievements in genetic and metabolic engineering of steroid-transforming strains in combination with novel approaches in the enzymatic and whole-cell biocatalysis provide a platform for highly effective and selective biotransformations.Here, we briefly review the current state and prospects in the field of microbial bioconversions with special attention to the application of molecular microbiology methods for the generation of new whole cell biocatalysts. |
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