1. Pathways of Carotenoids Biosynthesis in Bacteria and Microalgae
J. Paniagua-Michel, Jorge Olmos-Soto, Manuel Acosta Ruiz
2. Selection and Taxonomic Identification of Carotenoids Producing Marine Actinomycetes
Francisco Romero, Rosa Isabel Fernández-Chimeno, Juan Luis de la Fuente, and José Luis Barredo
3. Isolation, Characterization and Diversity of Novel Radio-tolerant Carotenoids-producing Bacteria
Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda
4. A Novel Radio-tolerant Astaxanthin Producing Bacterium Reveals a New Astaxanthin Derivative: Astaxanthin Dirhamnoside
Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda
5. Novel Zeaxanthin Producing Bacteria Isolated from a Radioactive Hot Spring Water
-----Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda
6. Novel Approach in the Biosynthesis of Functional Carotenoids in Escherichia coli
Hisashi Harada and Norihiko Misawa
7. Engineering Escherichia coli for Canthaxanthin and Astaxanthin Biosynthesis
Qiong Cheng, and Luan Tao
8. Analysis of Canthaxanthin Production by Gordonia jacobaea
Patricia Veiga-Crespo, Teresa Vinuesa, Miquel Viñas, and Tomás G. Villa
9. Isolation and Light-stimulated Expression of Canthaxanthin and Spirilloxathin Biosynthesis Genes from the Photosynthetic Bacterium Bradyrhizobium sp. Strain ORS278
Eric Giraud, and André Verméglio
10. Construction of Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathways Through Chromosomal Integration in Methane-Utilizing Bacterium Methylomonas sp. Strain 16a
Rick W. Ye and Kristen Kelly
11. Genetic Modification in Bacillus subtilis for Production of C30 Carotenoids
Isamu Maeda
12. Carotenoids Production from Halophilic BacteriaMaría de Lourdes Moreno, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, María Teresa García and Encarnación Mellado
13. Construction and Utilization of Carotenoid Reporter Systems: Identification of Chromosomal Integration Sites that Support Suitable Expression of Biosynthetic Genes and Pathways
Pamela L. Sharpe and Deana J. DiCosimo
14. Directed Evolution of Carotenoid Synthases for the Production of Unnatural Carotenoids
Maiko Furubayashi and Daisuke Umeno
15. A High Throughput Screen for the Identification of Improved Catalytic activity: b-carotene Hydroxylase
Mark A. Scaife, Cynthia A. Ma, Phillip C. Wright, and Roberto E. Armenta
16. DNA Fingerprinting Intron-sizing Method to Accomplish a Specific,
Rapid and Sensitive Identification of Carotenogenic Dunaliella Species
Jorge Olmos, J. Paniagua-Michel, Rosalia Contreras and Leonel Ochoa
17. Ketocarotenoid Biosynthesis in Transgenic Microalgae Expressing a Foreign β-C-4-carotene Oxygenase Gene
Marta Vila, Aurora Galván, Emilio Fernández, Rosa León
18. Characterization of Carotenogenesis Genes in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120
Hajime Masukawa, Mari Mochimaru, and Shinichi Takaichi
19. Obtaining Lutein Rich Extract from Microalgal Biomass at Preparative Scale
José M. Fernández-Sevilla, F. Gabriel Acién Fernández and Emilio Molina Grima
20. NMR-based Isotopologue Profiling of Microbial Carotenoids
Eva Eylert, Adelbert Bacher and Wolfgang Eisenreich
21. Analysis of Diapocarotenoids Found in Pigmented Bacillus Species
Laura Pérez-Fons, and Paul D. Fraser
4. A Novel Radio-tolerant Astaxanthin Producing Bacterium Reveals a New Astaxanthin Derivative: Astaxanthin Dirhamnoside
Dalal Asker, Tarek S Awad
