Microbial carotenoids from bacteria and microalgae :

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pathways of carotenoid biosynthesis in bacteria and microalgae / J. Paniagua-Michel, Jorge Olmos-Soto, and Manuel Acosta Ruiz -- Selection and taxonomic identification of carotenoid-producing marine actinomycetes / Francisco Romero -- Isolation, characterization, and diversity of novel radiotolerant carotenoid-producing bacteria / Dalal Asker ... [et al.] -- Novel radio-tolerant astaxanthin-producing bacterium reveals a new astaxanthin derivative : astaxanthin dirhamnoside / Dalal Asker ... [et al.] -- Novel zeaxanthin-producing bacteria isolated from a radioactive hot spring water / Dalal Asker ... [ et al.] -- Novel approach in the biosynthesis of functional carotenoids in Escherichia coli / Hisashi Harada and Norihiko Misawa -- Engineering Escherichia coli for canthaxanthin and ataxanthin biosynthesis / Qiong Cheng and Luan Tao -- Analysis of canthaxanthin production by Gordonia jacobaea / Patricia Veiga-Crespo ... [et al.] -- Isolation and light-stimulated expression of canthaxanthin and spirilloxanthin biosynthesis genes from the photosynthetic bacterium Bradyrhizobium sp. Strain ORS278 / Eric Giraud and Andre Vermeglio -- Construction of carotenoid biosynthetic pathways through chromosomal integration in methane-utilizing bacterium Methylomonas sp. strain 16a / Rick W. Ye and Kristen Kelly -- Genetic modification in Bacillus subtilis for production of C30 carotenoids / Isamu Maeda -- Carotenoids' production from halophilic bacteria / Maria de Lourdes Moreno ... [et al.] -- Construction and utilization of carotenoid reporter systems : identification of chromosomal integration sites that support suitable expression of biosynthetic genes and pathways / Pamela L. Sharpe and Deana J. DiCosimo -- Directed evolution of carotenoid synthases for the production of unnatural carotenoids / Maiko Furubayashi and Daisuke Umeno -- High-Throughput Screen for the Identi fi cation of improved catalytic activity: b-carotene hydroxylase / Mark A. Scaife ... [et al.] -- DNA fingerprinting intron-sizing method to accomplish a specific, rapid, and sensitive identification of carotenogenic Dunaliella species / Jorge Olmos-Soto ... [et al.] -- Ketocarotenoid biosynthesis in transgenic microalgae expressing a foreign beta-C-4-carotene oxygenase gene / Marta Vila ... [et al.] -- Characterization of carotenogenesis genes in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 / Hajime Masukawa, Mari Mochimaru, and Shinichi Takaichi -- Obtaining lutein-rich extract from microalgal biomass at preparative scale / Jose M. Fernandez-Sevilla, F. Gabriel Acien Fernandez, and Emilio Molina Grima -- NMR-based isotopologue profiling of microbial carotenoids / Eva Eylert, Adelbert Bacher, and Wolfgang Eisenreich -- Analysis of diapocarotenoids found in pigmented Bacillus species / Laura Perez-Fons and Paul D. Fraser.