Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface pp. i-x

Self-Organization and Stability of Poly -α-Glutamic Acid (α-PGA) with Cationic Surfactants
(Eleftheria K. Kodona, Eugenia Panou-Pomonis, Philoppos J. Pomonis, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece)
pp. 1-42

Metabolism and Physiology of Glutamate in Chickens
(Vishwajit S. Chowdhury, Mitsuhiro Furuse, Department of Bioresource Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
pp. 43-62
Different Roles and Applications of Poly (Glutamic Acid) in the Biomedical Field
(Magdalena Stevanović, Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia) pp. 63-78

Glutamic Acid in Food and its Thermal Degradation in Acidic Medium
(Giuseppe Montevecchi, Francesca Masino, Andrea Antonelli, Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale per il Miglioramento e la Valorizzazione delle Risorse Biologiche Agro-Alimentari BIOGEST-SITEIA, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, and others) pp. 79-96

Application of a Natural Biopolymer Poly (y-Glutamic Acid) as a Bioflocculant and Adsorbent for Cationic Dyes and Chemical Mutagens: An Overview
(B. Stephen Inbaraj, B.H. Chen, Department of Food Science, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan)* pp. 97-146

Biosynthesis of Poly (y-L-Glutamic Acid) and Comparative Studies on the Biodegradability of the y- and a-Enantiomeric Forms of the Poly(Glutamic Acid) by Bacillus Licheniformis NCIMB 11709
(M. Soledad Marqués-Calvo, Jordi Bou, Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar, Departament d’Òptica i Optometria, EUOOT, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain, and others)* pp. 147-166

Index pp. 167-177