Selection of Mycobacterium sp. strains with capacity to biotransform high concentrations of β-sitosterol

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 385-389

  Morse, Jeffrey W ^a   Saracino, Brian S ^a   Melanson, Scott W ^a   Arcona, Steven ^a   Heller, Michael B ^a  

^a ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; BOLDIONE; CARBON; METHANOL; SITOSTEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOTRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; NONHUMAN; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANDROSTADIENES; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; SITOSTEROLS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SP.; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034793791     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002530100693     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Microbial transformation of sterols in organic media
2. Novel intermediates of microbial side chain degradation of sitosterol
3. Microbiological sterol conversions: Utilization of selected mutants
4. Microbial transformations of sitosterol by mycobacteria from tall oil
5. Self-association of cholesterol in aqueous solution
6. Development of new steroids fermentation
7. Production of androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione from cholesterol using two-step microbial transformation
8. Microbial transformation of dihydrosarsasapogenin with Mycobacterium sp.
9. Transformation of cholesterol to testosterone by Mycobacterium sp.
10. Advances in microbial steroid biotransformation
11. Current trends in microbial steroid biotransformation
12. Transformation of sitosterol to androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione by immobilized Mycobacterium cells
13. Selection and characterization of new microorganisms for the manufacture of 9-OH-AD from sterols
14. Microbial transformation of sterols. I. Microbial transformation of phytosterols to androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione by Arthrobacter simplex
15. Microbial conversion of solasodine to 1-androstene-3,17-dione (AD), a key intermediate for androgen synthesis
16. Microbial transformations in a cyclodextrin medium. Part 2. Reduction of androstenedione to testosterone by Saccharomyces cerevisiae
17. Growth and cholesterol oxidation by Mycobacterium species in Tween 80 medium
18. Bioconversion of sitosterol to useful steroidal intermediates by mutants of Mycobacterium fortuitum