Microbial Fermentation

Microbial fermentation is the process of using microorganisms, under suitable conditions, to transform raw materials into products needed by humans through specific metabolic pathways. The level of microbial fermentation production depends mainly on the genetic characteristics of the strain itself and the culture conditions. The applications of fermentation engineering include pharmaceutical industry, food industry, energy industry, chemical industry, environmental protection and agriculture, such as modification of plant genes, biological nitrogen fixation, biopesticides and microbial nutrients.

Desirable and undesirable bioactive metabolites produced during fermentation which can impact choice of starter culturesFigure 1. Desirable and undesirable bioactive metabolites produced during fermentation which can impact choice of starter cultures. (Hill D., et al., 2017)

What We Offer

The essence of microbial transformation is the chemical reaction of structural modification of specific substrates by using enzymes produced in the process of microbial growth and metabolism, which has the advantages of strong regional and stereoselectivity, mild reaction conditions, simple operation, low cost, and less public harm. The enzymes produced by microorganisms in the process of fermenting plants can digest plant cell walls, substantially release active substances, degrade toxic substances, and produce new bioactive substances, thus biologically transforming the active ingredients in plants and converting large molecules in plants into small molecules that can be directly absorbed by the intestines of animals.

We Do Better

Lifeasible uses microbial metabolic activities and specific functions to gradually improve our analytical service platform by combining traditional fermentation with new technologies such as modern DNA recombination and modification, genome streamlining, and optimization. This technology can serve biotechnology industries such as bio-agriculture, bio-medicine, bio-energy, bio-environment, and bio-manufacturing. We can also do scientific and reasonable optimization based on your existing fermentation process to improve the fermentation efficiency and yield for you.

Reference

  1. Hill D., et al., “Recent advances in microbial fermentation for dairy and health.” F1000Research, 2017, 6:751.

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