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- Some bacteria can act as Pickering particles, helping to stabilize emulsions made of oil and water due to their size and surface properties.* -
- The study explores how these bacteria create microhabitats at oil-water interfaces, which can support their metabolism of oil-soluble substances.* -
- This research provides insights for bioprocess engineering by connecting the behavior of living bacteria in emulsions with larger systems, potentially leading to optimizing biocatalysis and understanding natural phenomena.*
Article Abstract
Based on the size of bacterial cells and bacterial surface hydrophobicity, some bacteria meet the requirements of Pickering particles to stabilize Pickering emulsions. Here, we discuss the oil-water interfaces of bacteria-stabilized Pickering emulsions as microhabitats for microbial metabolism of oil-soluble chemicals. The correlation between living bacteria-stabilized Pickering emulsions and microhabitats of living bacteria at oil-water interfaces offers a new perspective to study bioprocess engineering at the mesoscale between the cell and reactor scales, which not only provides novel parameters to optimize the bioprocess engineering, but also unravels the paradox of some natural phenomena related to living cell biocatalysis.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2024.09.014 | DOI Listing |
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