Monascus Species
Engineering rice based medium for production of lovastatin with Monascus species
... with Monascus species. The secondary metabolite of Monascus species, monacolin K (lovastatin), has been proved to lower blood lipid ...best Monascus purpureus strain was selected from ...
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1. Applications of fungal pigments in biotechnology
... by Monascus species showed great antioxidant and anti-cholesterol activity [28], due to this reason many fermented products of Monascus species are being used on industrial ...
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Metabolism and secretion of yellow pigment under high glucose stress with Monascus ruber
... of Monascus pigments is usually represented by the absorbance at their characteristic wavelength (Babitha et ...of Monascus species with a low IGC in the medium resulted in the accumulation of ...
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Microbes as Potential Source of Biocolours
... i) Monascus: Monascus species produce monascus pigments that are used in production of traditional East Asian foods, such as red rice wine, red bean ...with Monascus purpureus (also ...
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Antioxidant properties and production of monacolin k, citrinin, and red pigments during solid state fermentation of purple rice (Oryzae sativa) varieties by Monascus purpureus
... the Monascus strain and is an inhibitor of the enzyme hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMG-COA), which regu- lates and inhibits enzymes involved in cholesterol ...the Monascus species have ...
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Isolation, Characterization and Antimicrobial Activity of Pigment Isolated from Monascus Sp.
... [9]. Monascus species was obtained by culturing seeds and fruits of Pomegranate in Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA) media ...This species belong to the family Monascaceae of the phylum ...9 ...
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Glutamic acid promotes monacolin K production and monacolin K biosynthetic gene cluster expression in Monascus
... in Monascus was previously found to be positively influenced by glutamic ...by Monascus M1 was much higher than that observed in some other Monascus ...
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Optimization of divalent metal cations for maximal concentration of Monacolin K in Monascus M1 by response surface methodology
... Monascus species are traditional food in Asia that produce various useful secondary metabolites (SMs) including pigments (natural colouring agents), γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA, a hypotensive agent), and ...
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NAD+-dependent HDAC inhibitor stimulates Monascus pigment production but inhibit citrinin
... 2013). Monascus species are very important microbial resources in oriental countries due to their abilities to produce food additives and phar- maceutical ingredients, such as edible pigments, natural ...
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Rising temperature stimulates the biosynthesis of water-soluble fluorescent yellow pigments and gene expression in Monascus ruber CGMCC10910
... Monascus species can produce secondary metabolites that have a polyketide ...with Monascus ruber CGMCC 10910, of which Y3 and Y4 had strong yellow ...water-soluble Monascus yellow pigments ...
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Gamma irradiation induced silver nanoparticles synthesis by Monascus purpureus
... [28]. Monascus pigments, which are produced by various species of Monascus, have been used as a natural colorant and as traditional natural food additives in East Asia ...from Monascus ...
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Changing oxidoreduction potential to improve water-soluble yellow pigment production with Monascus ruber CGMCC 10910
... production. Monascus pigment biosynthesis occurs via a polyketide pathway and requires many primary metabolites, such as acetyl- CoA, malonyl-CoA, and NADPH [1, 31, ...of Monascus pigments in the ...for ...
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Chinese red yeast rice (Monascus purpureus) for primary hyperlipidemia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
... rice, Monascus purpureus, Xuezhikang, Cholestin, Hypochol, Hypocol, Lipascor', combined with 'hyperlipi- demia, hypercholesterolemia, dyslipidemia, hypertriglyc- eridemia, hyperlipoproteinemia', and limited our ...
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Antibacterial characteristics of orange pigment extracted from Monascus pigments against Escherichia coli
... The antibacterial characteristics of orange pigment, which is one of the Monascus pigments, against Escherichia coli were investigated. Orange pigment exhibited strong antibacterial activity against E. coli ...
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Saturation effect and transmembrane conversion of Monascus pigment in nonionic surfactant aqueous solution
... Extractive fermentation with micelles of the nonionic surfactant in an aqueous solution is an efficient method for eliminating product inhibition and preventing prod- uct degradation, which promotes the productivity of ...
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Biocatalytic activity of Monascus mycelia depending on physiology and high sensitivity to product concentration
... optimization. Monascus is an ascomycete fungi widely utilized as a microbial source for production of natural pigments, including three major groups of Monascus pigments (red ones, monascorubramine and ...
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Effect of a short-term dietary supplementation with phytosterols, red yeast rice or both on lipid pattern in moderately hypercholesterolemic subjects: a three-arm, double-blind, randomized clinical trial
... After 2 weeks of diet and physical activity (T0), patients were allocated to treatment with an indistinguishable li- quid sticks containing three different nutraceuticals: 1) phytosterols 800 mg, 2) red yeast rice ...
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Chinese red yeast rice (Monascus purpureus-fermented rice) promotes bone formation
... Red yeast rice (RYR, Hongqu), a Chinese dietary seasoning prepared by fermenting rice with Monascus purpureus [6] (Figure 1), has been used in Chinese medicine for centu- ries. RYR contains monacolins which are a ...
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Morphological attributes species identification of oleiferous Brassica species and better parents selection criteria for Brassica Juncea
... Brassica species to categorize them under different species considering the morphological attributes and to find out the best genotypes of ...cultivated species- ...
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IN SPECIES
... matter while the minimum growth was recorded in Nepal (I> isolate. mexicana showed poor growth, however, nitrogenase activity was maximum in this isolate whereas A. f[r] ...
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