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Antibacterial Biosurfactants

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Microbial Biosurfactants

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When we say surfactant the first thing that comes in our mind is detergent. Obviously surfactants are detergents but they are more than that! Surfactants are very important for their versatile applications, as detergents and lubricants and in drug manufacturing, food processing, bioremediation, crude oil degradation, cosmetic production, removal of heavy metals, etc. The list can be really long but here we are only interested in the antibacterial activity of biosurfactants. Biosurfactants are formed by the microorganisms when the latter lives in a competitive environment. As a result, biosurfactants possess antibacterial properties. Different strains of microorganisms can produce various types of biosurfactants. Multiple drug resistance (MDR) against standard drugs is a challenge nowadays. Antibacterial biosurfactants, owing to their large variety can be a remedy to this problem. The sources of biosurfactants are very cheap, because, generally, they are produced from industrial waste, food waste, and cheap raw materials. Due to industrial application, medicinal importance, and economic viability, biosurfactants find a niche in our daily life. Lots of researches are ongoing to explore their full potential. This chapter provides a very basic discussion on biosurfactants and recent developments in this field.

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This work is supported by DST-SERB research grant (File no. EEQ/2018/000964). DM thanks DST-SERB for his fellowship. The authors would like to thank the Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan.

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Mukherjee, D., Rooj, B., Mandal, U. (2021). Antibacterial Biosurfactants. In: Inamuddin, Ahamed, M.I., Prasad, R. (eds) Microbial Biosurfactants. Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6607-3_13

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