An exometabolomics approach to monitoring microbial contamination in microalgal fermentation processes by using metabolic footprint analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7605-7610

  Sue, Tiffany ^a   Obolonkin, Victor ^a   Griffiths, Hywel ^b   Villas Bôas, Silas Granato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Photonz Corporation Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXENIC CULTURE; BATCH CULTURE; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; CROSS VALIDATION; DETECTION METHODS; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EARLY DETECTION; FERMENTATION PROCESS; FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; METABOLITE PROFILES; MICRO-ALGAE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PROCESS FAILURE; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

BATCH CELL CULTURE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FERMENTATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PROCESS CONTROL;

CONTAMINATION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FERMENTATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROALGA; MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; FERMENTATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOREACTORS; FERMENTATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 83155191004     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00469-11     Document Type: Article

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