Indigoidine is a blue compound produced by several bacterial species suitable for use as a

dye A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied. This distinguishes dyes from pigments which do not chemically bind to the material they color. Dye is generally applied in an aqueous solution an ...

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* American Chemical Society, ACS article

"High-Level Production of the Natural Blue Pigment Indigoidine from Metabolically Engineered ''

Corynebacterium glutamicum ''Corynebacterium glutamicum'' is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that is used industrially for large-scale production of amino acids. While originally identified in a screen for organisms secreting L-glutamate, mutants of ''C. glutamicum' ...

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