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Monoterpenes ? old compounds, new applications, and biotechnological methods of their production

Year: 2007

Type: other

Abstract: Monoterpenes -old compounds, new applications, and biotechno logical methods of their production Summary Monoterpenes are the largest class of plant secondary metabolites.The re view discusses some of their key roles in chemical ecology.Several applications of monoterpenes in flavour and fragrance industry, bioremediation, in preven tion and therapy of several inflammatory infection, potential disease-preventive phytochemicals, especially for cancer development, are presented.This review also aims at a potential offered by biocatalysis for the synthesis of valuable nat ural monoterpenes, highlighting relevant biotransformation of suitable precur sors (like pinene, limonene, myrcene) using microorganism and porphyrins.The industrial processes based on biotechnological methods are also discussed in terms of their advantages over classical chemical synthesis and extraction from natural sources.

Source: RCIN (Digital Repository of the Scientifics Institutes) (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

Authors: Mariusz Trytek, R. Paduch, J. Fiedurek, M. Kandefer-Szerszen

Institution: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

Language: English

Topic: Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W656465795

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