Dissecting Actinobacteria: From Ecology and Biotechnological Value to Synthetic Biology
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Metabolism, Physiology & Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lipogenesis and oleagenicity in rhodococci; develop robust strains; industrial wastes into precursor oils for biofuels; biolubricants and oleochemicals
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Interests: bacterial taxonomy; environmental bacteria; industrially relevant metabolites; metabolic pathways; production improvement; agriculture by-products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Members of the Actinobacteria class display a wide range of metabolic processes that interest different industries. Mechanisms of adaptation to stress conditions result in the production of valuable compounds and enzymes through fermentation processes. Knowing how bacteria regulate these processes is essential to improving and utilizing them. There is also a lack of engineering tools to modify sources of actinobacterial expression and enhance the yield of different products. Advances and challenges in this topic can be used to address this gap in the research.
This Special Issue welcomes scholars to submit recent investigations (original research articles, reviews and perspectives) whose main focus is on ways to produce or improve metabolic processes with biotechnological applications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Biosynthesis and recovery of lipids, exopolysaccharides, phytohormones, betaine;
- Catabolism of pollutants and bioremediation;
- Wastewater treatment;
- Genome mining and reconstruction of relevant biotechnological metabolic pathways.
Prof. Dr. Héctor M. Alvarez
Dr. Mariana Lanfranconi
Dr. José Sebastián Dávila Costa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbial production
- metabolic pathways
- omic techniques
- microbial degradation
- genetic engineering
- process optimization
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