Authors
Citation
P. Loganathan, PRODUCTION OF DL-DOPA FROM ACELLULAR SLIME-MOLD STEMONITIS-HERBATICA, Bioprocess engineering, 18(4), 1998, pp. 307-308
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Chemical","Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
ISSN journal
0178515X
Volume
18
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
307 - 308
Database
ISI
SICI code
0178-515X(1998)18:4<307:PODFAS>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) is a neurotransmitter precursor an
d hence has wide therapeutic applications. Our earlier studies have sh
own that the melanin in sporangia of the myxomycete species Stemonitis
herbatica is DOPA melanin, and that it is possible to extract the pre
cursor DL-DOPA from differentiating plasmodia. The production of DL-DO
PA from this species might be commercially viable.