Microbial whole cells are efficient, ecological, and low-cost catalysts that have been successfully applied in the pharmaceutical, environmental, and alimentary industries, among others. Microorganism immobilization is a good way to carry out the bioprocess under preparative conditions. The main advantages of this methodology lie in their high operational stability, easy upstream separation, and bioprocess scale-up feasibility. Cell entrapment is the most widely used technique for whole cell immobilization. This technique—in which the cells are included within a rigid network—is porous enough to allow the diffusion of substrates and products, protects the selected microorganism from the reaction medium, and has high immobilization efficiency (100% in most cases).
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Trelles, J. A., & Rivero, C. W. (2020). Whole Cell Entrapment Techniques. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2100, pp. 385–394). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0215-7_25
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