Indrani Paul*

Department of Biotechnology, Brainware University, Kolkata, India

*Corresponding Author: Indrani Paul, Department of Biotechnology, Brainware University, Kolkata, India.

Received: November 15, 2023; Published: December 02, 2023

Abstract

Biosurfactants are surface active compounds better known for their capacity to lower down surface tension of water and are one of the very well-considered classes of valorizable products synthesised by bacteria from a wide range of genuses. The earliest reports on biosurfactants from bacteria dates back to 1986 by Kaeppeli and Guerra-Santos, where the team obtained the first ever patent on bacterial derived biosurfactants, described as rhamnolipids from Pseudomonas aeruginosa DSM 2659.

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Citation

Citation: Indrani Paul. “Biosurfactant Producers: Multifunctional Microbial Strains Pioneering Environmental Clean-Up Strategies".Acta Scientific Biotechnology 4.6 (2023): 01-03.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2023 Indrani Paul. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.