Carotenoids from Haloarchaea and their potential in biotechnology

Marine Drugs

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5508-5532

  Rodrigo Baños, Montserrat ^a   Garbayo, Inés ^b   Vílchez, Carlos ^b   Bonete, María José ^a   Martínez Espinosa, Rosa María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterioruberin; Carotenoids; Haloarchaea; Isoprenoid; Red And Orange Pigments

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BACTERIORUBERIN; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; COSMETIC; FOOD ADDITIVE; FOOD DYE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHOPHYLL;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONJUGATION; DNA MODIFICATION; HALOBACTERIALES; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; HALOPHILIC ARCHAEON; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; ISOMERIZATION; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ECONOMICS; HALOFERAX; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAROTENOIDS; HALOFERAX; HUMANS;

EID: 84943145014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md13095508     Document Type: Review

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