Microorganisms or biological component used

Products

Potential industrial uses or applications

Ref.

Geotrichum candidum

Biomassdegradation of phenol-derived compounds

Bioremediation

[26]

Kluyveromyces marxianus var. marxianus

Unicelular protein

Food

[27]

Bacillus megaterium SRKP-3,

Brevibacterium casei SRKP2

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)

Plastics

[28]

[29]

Kluyveromyces fragilis,

Kluyveromyces marxianus DSMZ-7239,

Clostridium acetobutylicum DSM 792,

E. coli,

Rhodopseudomonas cyanobacterium,

anacystis

Etanol, butanol, electricity, H₂

Bioenergy or biofuels

[32]

[33]

[34]

[36]

[39]

[41]

Propionibacterium shermanii,

Propionibacterium acidipropionici,

Actinobacillus succinogenes 130Z,

Aspergillus carbonarius NRRL 67,

Aspergillus niger ATCC9642,

Kluyveromyces marxianus IFO 288,

Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. Bulgaricus,

Lactobacillus helveticus ATCC-11,842,

Fusarium moniliforme

Citric acid, lactic acid, succinic acid, propionic acid, gibberellic acid

Pharmaceuticals,

food industry,

agriculture

[43]

[44]

[46]

[47]

[48]

[49]

[49]

[49]

[54]

Candida bombicola ATCC 22,214,

Bacillus licheniformis M104,

Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 10,145

Biosurfactants

Food industry,

medicine,

pharmaceutics

[58]

[59]

[60]

Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp.,

Streptococcus thermophilus SY

Exo polysaccharides

Pharmaceutics, food industry,

stabilizers, texturing and gelling agents.

[65]

[66]

Proteolytic enzymes of Maclura pomifera-papain and hemisphericine

Bioactive peptides

Pharmaceutics, food industry,

health

[75] [77]

Lactobacillus helveticus

Bioactive peptides

[76]

Proteases and peptidases of Aspergillus oryzae,

Lactobacillus helveticus,

St. Salivarius var. thermophilus

Bioactive peptides

[78]

Bacillus subtilis and proteases of Bacillus licheniformis

Hydrolyzed protein

Food and nutrition

[79]

[80]