Microbial Metabolism in Fermentation Process
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Metabolism, Physiology & Genetics".
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Interests: microbiology; fermentation; microbial metabolism; bioreactors and fermenter; bacteria
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Dear Colleagues,
The compounds obtained from the fermentative metabolism of microorganisms have been intensively studied for their technological implications in the agri-food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Microorganisms can be divided into
- Obligate anaerobes, with fermentation metabolism or anaerobic respiration;
- Obligate aerobes, with aerobic respiration and part of fermentation metabolism;
- Facultative anaerobes, with aerobic respiration and anaerobic pathways (anaerobic respiration or fermentation metabolism).
Furthermore, they may also be differentiated by their fermentation pathways, end-products, and for the substrate that can ferment. Fermentation begins with glycolysis in the same way as cellular respiration, but the formed pyruvate does not continue through the citric acid cycle. Two examples of typical metabolism in the fermentation process are lactic acid fermentation and ethanol fermentation.
In lactic acid fermentation, pyruvate accepts electrons from NADH and is reduced to lactic acid; in the homolactic fermentation, the end-product is only lactic acid, while the heterolactic fermentation contains a mixture of lactic acid, ethanol and/or acetic acid, and CO2.
During ethanol fermentation, pyruvate is decarboxylated to acetaldehyde and CO2, and then accepts electrons from NADH, reducing acetaldehyde to ethanol. Other common microbial fermentation pathways are
- Acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation, with acetone, butanol, ethanol, and CO2 as end-products;
- Butanediol fermentation, with ethanol, formic and lactic acid, acetoin, 2,3 butanediol, CO2, and hydrogen gas as end-products;
- Butyric acid fermentation, with butyric acid, CO2, and hydrogen gas as end-products;
- Mixed acid fermentation, with acetic, formic, lactic, and succinic acids; and ethanol, CO2, and hydrogen gas as end-products;
- Propionic acid fermentation, with acetic acid, propionic acid, and CO2 as end-products.
This Special Issue seeks but is not limited to original research articles or reviews; the impact of various microbial metabolisms on the fermentation process, highlighting the enzymes involved; natural and engineering metabolic pathway optimization; and the reduction of microbial stress conditions.
Dr. Alessandro Robertiello
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Microbial metabolism
- Fermentation process
- Enzymes
- Metabolic engineering
- Microbial stress
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