Altenbuchner J., 2016. Editing of the Bacillus subtilis genome by the CRISPR-Cas9 System. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol.82(17): 5421-5427. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01453-16
Anagnostopoulos C. and Spizizen J., 1961. Requirements for transformation in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of bacteriology, vol.81(5): 741-746.
Bezza F.A. and Chirwa E.M.N., 2017. Pyrene biodegradation enhancement potential of lipopeptide biosurfactant produced by Paenibacillus dendritiformis CN5 strain. Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol.321: 218-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.08.035
Bezza F.A. and Chirwa E.M.N., 2017. The role of lipopeptide biosurfactant on microbial remediation of aged polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)-contaminated soil. Chemical Engineering Journal, vol.309: 563-576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2016.10.055
Chen W.C., Juang R.S. and Wei Y.H., 2015. Applications of a lipopeptide biosurfactant, surfactin, produced by microorganisms. Biochemical Engineering Journal, vol. 103: 158-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bej.2015.07.009
Coutte F., Leclere V., Bechet M., et al, 2010. Effect of pps disruption and constitutive expression of srfA on surfactin productivity, spreading and antagonistic properties of Bacillus subtilis 168 derivatives. Journal of Applied Microbiology, vol.109(2): 480-491. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010.04683.x
Coutte F., Niehren J., Dhali D., et al, 2015. Modeling leucine's metabolic pathway and knockout prediction improving the production of surfactin, a biosurfactant from Bacillus subtilis. Biotechnology Journal, vol. 10(8): 1216-1234. https://doi.org/10.1002/biot.201400541
Dhali D., Coutte F., Arias A.A., et al, 2017. Genetic engineering of the branched fatty acid metabolic pathway of Bacillus subtilis for the overproduction of surfactin C-14 isoform. Biotechnology Journal, vol.12(7). https://doi.org/10.1002/biot.201600574
Fernandes P.E., Sao J., Zerdas ERMA, et al, 2014.Influence of the hydrophobicity and surface roughness of mangoes and tomatoes on the adhesion of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and evaluation of cleaning procedures using surfactin. Food Control, vol.41: 21-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.12.024
Gao L., Han J., Liu H., et al, 2017. Plipastatin and surfactin coproduction by Bacillus subtilis pB2-L and their effects on microorganisms. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology, vol.110(8): 1007-1018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-017-0874-y
Geetha S.J., Ibrahim M. Banat, and Sanket J. Joshi, 2018. Biosurfactants: Production and potential applications in microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR). Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, vol.14: 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcab.2018.01.010
Guan C., Cui W., Cheng J., et al, 2015. Construction and development of an auto-regulatory gene expression system in Bacillus subtilis. Microbial Cell Factories, vol.14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-015-0341-2
Gudina E.J., Rangarajan V., Sen R., et al, 2013. Potential therapeutic applications of biosurfactants. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, vol.34(12): 667-675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tips.2013.10.002
Heckman K.L. and Pease L.R., 2007. Gene splicing and mutagenesis by PCR-driven overlap extension. Nature Protocols, vol.2(4): 924-932. https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2007.132
Hu F., Liu Y. and Li S., 2019. Rational strain improvement for surfactin production: enhancing the yield and generating novel structures. Microbial Cell Factories, vol.18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-019-1089-x
Jiao S., Li X., Yu H., et al, 2017. In situ enhancement of surfactin biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis using novel artificial inducible promoters. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol.114(4): 832-842. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.26197
Jimoh A.A. and Lin J., 2019. Biosurfactant: A new frontier for greener technology and environmental sustainability. Ecotox Environ Safe, vol. 184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.109607
Jung J., Yu K.O., Ramzi A.B., et al,2012. Improvement of surfactin production in Bacillus subtilis using synthetic wastewater by overexpression of specific extracellular signaling peptides, comX and phrC. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol.109(9): 2349-2356. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.24524
Kang X.M., Cai X., Huang Z.H., et al, 2020. Construction of a highly active secretory expression system in Bacillus subtilis of a recombinant amidase by promoter and signal peptide engineering. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, vol.143: 833-841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.09.144
Li X., Yang H., Zhang D., et al, 2015. Overexpression of specific proton motive force-dependent transporters facilitate the export of surfactin in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, vol.42(1): 93-103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-014-1527-z
Liu D., Mao Z., Guo J., et al, 2018. Construction, model-based analysis, and characterization of a promoter library for fine-tuned gene expression in Bacillus subtilis. Acs Synthetic Biology, vol.7(7): 1785-1797. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00115
Liu J., Li W., Zhu X, et al, 2019. Surfactin effectively inhibits Staphylococcus aureus adhesion and biofilm formation on surfaces. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol. 103(11): 4565-4574. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-019-09808-w
Liu J.F., Yang J., Yang S.Z., et al, 2012. Effects of different amino acids in culture media on surfactin variants produced by Bacillus subtilis TD7. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, vol. 166(8): 2091-2100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-012-9636-5
Marahiel M. A., 2016. A structural model for multimodular NRPS assembly lines. Natural Product Reports, vol.33(2): 136-140. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5np00082c
Muthusamy K., Gopalakrishnan S., Ravi T.K., et al, 2008. Biosurfactants: properties, commercial production and application. Current Science, vol. 94(6): 736-747
Nakano M.M., Marahiel M.A., and Zuber P, 1988. Identification of a genetic locus required for biosynthesis of the lipopeptide antibiotic surfactin in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of bacteriology, vol.170(12): 5662-5668. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.170.12.5662-5668.1988
Nitschke M. and Sousa e Silva S, 2018. Recent food applications of microbial surfactants. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, vol.58(4): 631-638. https://doi.org/10.1080/10408398.2016.1208635
Penha R.O., Vandenberghe L.P.S., Faulds C., et al, 2020. Bacillus lipopeptides as powerful pest control agents for a more sustainable and healthy agriculture: recent studies and innovations. Planta, vol.251(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-020-03357-7
Pereira J.F.B., Gudina E.J., Costa R., et al, 2013. Optimization and characterization of biosurfactant production by Bacillus subtilis isolates towards microbial enhanced oil recovery applications. Fuel, vol.111: 259-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2013.04.040
Peypoux F., Bonmatin J.M., and Wallach J., 1999. Recent trends in the biochemistry of surfactin. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol.51(5): 553-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002530051432
Rebello S., Aneesh E.M., Sindhu R., et al, 2018. Biosynthesis and technological advancements of biosurfactants. Energy Environment and Sustainability, 167-183. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7434-9_10
Rodrigues L., Banat I.M., Teixeira J., et al, 2006. Biosurfactants: potential applications in medicine. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, vol.57(4): 609-618. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkl024
Roongsawang N., Washio K. and Morikawa M., 2011. Diversity of nonribosomal peptide synthetases involved in the biosynthesis of lipopeptide biosurfactants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol.12(1): 141-172. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms12010141
Sen R, 2010. Surfactin: biosynthesis, genetics and potential applications. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol.672: 316-323
Seydlova G. and Svobodova J., 2008. Review of surfactin chemical properties and the potential biomedical applications. Central European Journal of Medicine, vol.3(2):123-133. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11536-008-0002-5
Song Y., Nikoloff J.M., Fu G, et al,2016. Promoter screening from Bacillus subtilis in various conditions hunting for synthetic biology and industrial applications. Plos One, vol.11(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158447
Sun H., Bie X., Lu F., et al, 2009. Enhancement of surfactin production of Bacillus subtilis fmbR by replacement of the native promoter with the Pspac promoter. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, vol.55(8): 1003-1006. https://doi.org/10.1139/W09-044
Wang C., Cao Y., Wang Y., et al, 2019. Enhancing surfactin production by using systematic CRISPRi repression to screen amino acid biosynthesis genes in Bacillus subtilis. Microbial Cell Factories, vol.18(1):90. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-019-1139-4
Willenbacher J., Mohr T., Henkel M., et al, 2016. Substitution of the native srfA promoter by constitutive P-veg in two B. subtilis strains and evaluation of the effect on surfactin production. Journal of Biotechnology, vol.224: 14-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2016.03.002
Wu Q., Zhi Y. and Xu Y, 2019. Systematically engineering the biosynthesis of a green biosurfactant surfactin by Bacillus subtilis 168. Metabolic Engineering, vol.52: 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2018.11.004
Yang S., Du G.C., Chen J., et al, 2017. Characterization and application of endogenous phase-dependent promoters in Bacillus subtilis. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol.101(10): 4151-4161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-017-8142-7
Yang Y., Wu H.J., Lin L., et al, 2015. A plasmid-born Rap-Phr system regulates surfactin production, sporulation and genetic competence in the heterologous host, Bacillus subtilis OKB105. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol.99(17): 7241-7252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-015-6604-3
Yoneda T., Tsuzuki T., Ogata E., et al, 2001. Surfactin sodium salt: an excellent bio-surfactant for cosmetics. Journal of Cosmetic Science, vol.52(2): 153-154.
Yu X., Xu J., Liu X., et al, 2015. Identification of a highly efficient stationary phase promoter in Bacillus subtilis. Scientific Reports, vol.5. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18405