title: Review lipopeptides biosurfactants: Mean classes and new insights for industrial, biomedical, and environmental applications.
abstract: Lipopeptides are microbial surface active compounds produced by a wide variety of bacteria, fungi, and yeast. They are characterized by high structural diversity and have the ability to decrease the surface and interfacial tension at the surface and interface, respectively. Surfactin, iturin, and fengycin of Bacillus subtilis are among the most popular lipopeptides. Lipopepetides can be applied in diverse domains as food and cosmetic industries for their emulsification/de-emulsification capacity, dispersing, foaming, moisturizing, and dispersing properties. Also, they are qualified as viscosity reducers, hydrocarbon solubilizing and mobilizing agents, and metal sequestering candidates for application in environment and bioremediation. Moreover, their ability to form pores and destabilize biological membrane permits their use as antimicrobial, hemolytic, antiviral, antitumor, and insecticide agents. Furthermore, lipopeptides can act at the surface and can modulate enzymes activity permitting the enhancement of the activity of certain enzymes ameliorating microbial process or the inhibition of certain other enzymes permitting their use as antifungal agents. This article will present a detailed classification of lipopeptides biosurfactant along with their producing strain and biological activities and will discuss their functional properties and related applications.
authors: Higher Institute of Biotechnology, Sfax, Tunisia.|Unit Enzymes and Bioconversion, National School of Engineers, Tunisia.
authors: Inès
authors: I
authors: Mnif
authors: Higher Institute of Biotechnology, Sfax, Tunisia.|Unit Enzymes and Bioconversion, National School of Engineers, Tunisia.
authors: Dhouha
authors: D
authors: Ghribi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000737:chemistry*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D055666:Lipopeptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification*; D013501:Surface-Active Agents / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D055666:Lipopeptides; D013501:Surface-Active Agents
keywords: Bacillus and Pseudomonas; actinomycete; antimicrobials; bioremediation; emulsifiers; lipopeptides; surfactants