Microbial products: Protein, enzyme, secondary metabolites and chemicals

Abstract

Microbial products are described as products derived from microbes. Microbial products have been contributing in almost every sphere of human life. These products have proved their importance and value in field of food and feed sector, agriculture, healthcare, and many other industries. Microbes have the ability to grow in wide variety of substrate on large scale to produce many valuable primary metabolites such as amino acids, enzymes, vitamins, organic acids, alcohol and bioactive metabolites such as antibiotics, alkaloids, peptides, growth factor, etc. This chapter describes the importance of microorganism for production of protein, enzymes, secondary metabolites and chemicals.