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Atim Asitok

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Articles 13
Citations 39
Followers 0
Related Specialties
Biotechnology
Biochemistry
Microbiology
Top 10 Co-Authors
Sylvester Antai
Maurice Ekpenyong
Richard Antigha
Nkpa Ogarekpe
Joseph Essien
Anitha Rao
Agnes Antai
Juliet Iheanacho
Iquo Takon
David Ubi
Published In
Prep Biochem Biotechnol
Int J Pept Res Ther
Arch Microbiol
J Food Sci Technol
World J Microbiol Biotechnol
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Recent Articles
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Saccharification and co-fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass by a cockroach-gut bacterial symbiont and yeast cocktail for bioethanol production
Echa C, Ekpenyong M, Edeghor U, Ubi D, Edet P, Itam D, et al.
BMC Biotechnol . 2024 Dec; 24(1):102. PMID: 39696229
Background: The eco-friendly transformation of agro-industrial wastes through microbial bioconversion could address sustainability challenges in line with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. The bulk of agro-industrial waste consists of...
2.
Strain improvement, artificial intelligence optimization, and sensitivity analysis of asparaginase-mediated acrylamide reduction in sweet potato chips
Akwagiobe E, Ekpenyong M, Asitok A, Amenaghawon A, Ubi D, Ikharia E, et al.
J Food Sci Technol . 2023 Jul; 60(9):2358-2369. PMID: 37424578
Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13197-023-05757-5.
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Application of the novel manta-ray foraging algorithm to optimize acidic peptidase production in solid-state fermentation using binary agro-industrial waste
Ekpenyong M, Asitok A, Ben U, Amenaghawon A, Kusuma H, Akpan A, et al.
Prep Biochem Biotechnol . 2023 May; 54(2):226-238. PMID: 37210635
Peptidases, which constitute about 20% of the global enzyme market, have found applications in detergent, food and pharmaceutical industries, and could be produced on a large scale using low-cost agro-industrial...
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Production, characterization and techno-economic evaluation of Aspergillus fusant L-asparaginase
Asitok A, Ekpenyong M, Amenaghawon A, Akwagiobe E, Asuquo M, Rao A, et al.
AMB Express . 2023 Jan; 13(1):2. PMID: 36609612
Protoplast fusion is one of the most reliable methods of introducing desirable traits into industrially-promising fungal strains. It harnesses the entire genomic repertoire of fusing microorganisms by routing the natural...
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Interspecific protoplast fusion of atmospheric and room-temperature plasma mutants of generates an L-asparaginase hyper-producing hybrid with techno-economic benefits
Asitok A, Ekpenyong M, Akwagiobe E, Asuquo M, Rao A, Ubi D, et al.
Prep Biochem Biotechnol . 2022 Nov; 53(7):827-840. PMID: 36449415
The axenic culture of (Asp-C) produced an anti-leukemic L-asparaginase while (Asp-S) produced the acrylamide-reduction type. Upon mutagenesis by atmospheric and room-temperature plasma (ARTP), their individual L-asparaginase activities improved 2.3-folds in...
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Stochastic modeling and meta-heuristic multivariate optimization of bioprocess conditions for co-valorization of feather and waste frying oil toward prodigiosin production
Asitok A, Ekpenyong M, Ben U, Antigha R, Ogarekpe N, Rao A, et al.
Prep Biochem Biotechnol . 2022 Oct; 53(6):690-703. PMID: 36269079
strain UCCM 00009 produced a mixture of gelatinase and keratinase to facilitate feather degradation but concomitant production of prodigiosin could make waste feather valorization biotechnologically more attractive. This article describes...
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Intracellular-to-extracellular localization switch of acidic lipase in Enterobacter cloacae through multi-objective medium optimization: aqueous two-phase purification and activity kinetics
Asitok A, Ekpenyong M, Ogarekpe N, Antigha R, Takon I, Rao A, et al.
World J Microbiol Biotechnol . 2022 Oct; 38(12):235. PMID: 36229747
As physiological impairments that require replacement therapy continue to increase, so also does the need for improved production of acidic lipase from new microbial sources. Enterobacter cloacae strain UCCM 00116...
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Intracellular-to-extracellular localization switch of acidic lipase in : evaluation of production kinetics and enantioselective esterification potential for pharmaceutical applications
Asitok A, Ekpenyong M, Ogarekpe N, Antigha R, Takon I, Rao A, et al.
Prep Biochem Biotechnol . 2022 Aug; 53(5):542-556. PMID: 36018558
Downstream processing is a significant part of a production process and accounts for 50-90% of the production cost of biotechnological products. Post-fermentation localization of a microbial metabolite contributes significantly to...
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A novel strain of Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila produces thermostable alkaline peptidase on agro-industrial wastes: process optimization, kinetic modeling and scale-up
Asitok A, Ekpenyong M, Takon I, Antai S, Ogarekpe N, Antigha R, et al.
Arch Microbiol . 2022 Jun; 204(7):400. PMID: 35713813
Bacterial alkaline peptidases, especially from Bacillus species, occupy the frontline in global enzyme market, albeit with poor production economics. Here, we report the deployment of response surface methodology approximations to...
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Overproduction of a thermo-stable halo-alkaline protease on agro-waste-based optimized medium through alternate combinatorial random mutagenesis of
Asitok A, Ekpenyong M, Takon I, Antai S, Ogarekpe N, Antigha R, et al.
Biotechnol Rep (Amst) . 2022 Jun; 35:e00746. PMID: 35707314
A strain of , isolated from fermenting bean-processing wastewater, produced alkaline protease in pretreated cassava waste-stream, but with low yield. Strain improvement by alternate combinatorial random mutagenesis and bioprocess optimization...