The fungus Talaromyces verruculosus can produce the chemical erythro-isocitric acid directly from cheap plant waste, thus making it interesting for industrial utilization. Using the natural ...

Journal reference: Syntheses with a Chiral Building Block from the Citric Acid Cycle: (2R,3S)-Isocitric Acid by Fermentation of Sunflower Oil. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. doi: 10.1002 ...

As a result, the scientists established that isocitric acid increased the survival rate of the cells 25 to 31 times compared to untreated infusoria. Moreover, the positive effect of isocitric acid ...