Biotransformation of Chinese Herbs and Their Ingredients

Biotransformation has been extensively applied in herbal fermentation processing, metabolism study of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), structural modification and synthesis of active components of TCM. Selecting steroidal saponins as the subject, the selective hydrolysis of glycosyl residues, glycosylation of molecules, and the modification of their aglycone were systematically studied by biotechnology in this work. Some active microorganisms...