Screening marine microbes for novel biosurfactant production for utilisation in the food industry.

微生物来源的天然生物表面活性剂具有巨大的市场潜力；无毒;生物可降解和可持续的替代品，以取代目前在食品工业中使用的化学衍生表面活性剂（2007年，仅在美国，食品加工中对表面活性剂的需求总额就达到4.05亿美元）。在这项研究中，PML应用有限公司将系统地筛选其庞大而多样的海洋细菌库，以寻找具有高生物表面活性剂生产力和新型化学结构和功能的新型生物表面活性剂生产生物，用于食品系统。这一筛选项目代表了英国同类和规模的第一个项目，设想的产出是鉴定几种关键的海洋细菌菌株，这些菌株可以被世界各地的制造商用于生产新型和更健康的食品成分。

Biosurfactants of microbial origin offer huge market potential as natural; non-toxic; biodegradable and sustainable replacements for chemically derived surfactants currently used in the food industry (In 2007, demand for surfactants in food processing in the United States alone totalled $405 million). Within this study, PML Applications Ltd will systematically screen its large and diverse marine bacterial repository for novel biosurfactant producing organisms with the potential for high biosurfactant productivity and novel chemical structure and functionality for use in food systems. This screening programme represents the first of its kind and scale in the UK with an envisaged output being the identification of several key marine bacterial strains that could be utilised by manufacturers worldwide for the production of novel and healthier food ingredients.