Moreno Amador, María de LourdesSánchez-Porro Álvarez, CristinaGarcía, María TeresaMellado Durán, María Encarnación2024-10-242024-10-242012Moreno Amador, M.d.L., Sánchez-Porro Álvarez, C.,...,Mellado Durán, M.E. (2012). Carotenoids’ Production from Halophilic Bacteria. En Microbial Carotenoids from Bacteria and Microalgae (pp. 207-217). Berlin: Springer Nature.978-1-61779-878-8978-1-61779-879-5https://hdl.handle.net/11441/164082Carotenoids have received considerable attention due to their interesting industrial applications and, more importantly, their potential beneficial effects on human health. Halophiles comprise a heterogeneous group of microorganisms that need salts for optimal growth. The pigments produced by these halophilic organisms comprise phytoene, β-carotene, lycopene, derivatives of bacterioruberin and salinixanthin. Here we describe the procedure to obtain salinixanthin from the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruber. Moreover, we describe the expression of β-carotene biosynthetic genes crtE, crtY, crtI, and crtB from Pantoea agglomerans in the moderately halophilic bacterium Halomonas elongata obtaining a strain able to produce practically pure β-carotene. Thus, the use of these halophilic microorganisms as a source of carotenoids constitutes an important commercial alternative in the production of carotenoids from biological sources.application/pdf25 p.engcarotenoidsalinixanthinβ-carotenecrt geneshalophilesSalinibacter ruberHalomonas elongatagenetic engineeringinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-879-5_12