Carlos Casas Campillo, Mexican microbiologist and chemist (Cordoba, Veracruz State 12 October 1916 – Ciudad de Mexico 06 October 1994)

Contributions

With A. Sanchez Marroquín. Aislamiento, incidencia y caracterización del bacteriofago de Rhizobium meliloti. An. Esc. Nac. Cien. Biol. Mexico 3:1943-4

El antagonismo microbiano en relación con las bacterias de los nodulos de las plantas leguminosas Ciencia 9:193-9, 1949

Rhizobacidin, an antibiotic with particular activity against the nodule bacteria of legumes. Ciencia 11:21-8, 1951

With H.J. Ringold, O. Mancera, C. Djerassi, A. Bowers, E. Batres, H. Martínez, E. Necoechea, J. Edwards, M. Velasco & R.J. Dorfman. A new class of potent cortical hormones 6α-chlorocorticoids. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 80(23):6464-5, 1958

Desarrollo de un proceso para la producción de inoculante para soya. Rev. Soc. Quim. Mexico (1979)

Proceso para obtener proteínas de origen unicelular a partir del bagazo de la cana. Rev. Soc. Quim. Mexico (1979)

With M. de la Torre. Isolation and characterization of a symbiotic cellulolytic mixed bacterial culture. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechn. 19:430-4, 1984

Papers in top journals

With S. Bartnicki-Garcia. Some nutritional requirements of Colletotrichum coffeanum Noack. Nature 181(4608):565-6, 1958

Patents (incomplete list)

With M.M. De la Torre Martínez. Procedimiento mejorado de fermentación para la producción de proteina unicelular a partir de residuos lignocelulosicos MX65668E (1985)

Process for the production of 6-substituted 11a hydroxysteroids DE1249269B (1967)

With A. Zaffaroni. Process for the production of 11-hydroxylated steroids AU277066A (1967) & AU4290889B2 (1967)

With A. Zaffaroni. Selective microbial hydroxylation process at position of steroids FR1483798A (1966)

With A. Zaffaroni. Process for the microbiological 11-hydroxyylation of steroids of the pregnane series in the presence of dimethylsutoxide DE1543462B2 (1966)

Process for the transformation of steroids using a mutant strain of Arthrobacter (Corynebacterium) simplex. US Patent 3,264,194 A (1966)

With P. Crabbe. Microbiological hydroxylation of steroids US3,375,174 A (1965)

11 alpha-hydroxylation of 6-substituted-11-desoxy-steroids with microorganisms of the genus Fusarium sect. Liseola US3,203,869A (1965)

Process for the preparation of 11α-hydroxy Δ4-3 keto steroids from 11 unsubstituted Δ5-3 hydroxy and 3-acyloxy steroids using Psilocybe caerulescens var. mazatecorum. US Patent 3,190,809 (1965)

Process for the preparation of cyclopentanopolyhydrophenanthrene derivatives FR1417023A (1964)

Microbiological preparation of Δ1,3,5(10) – 3-hydroxysteroids. US Patent 3,379,621 (1964)

Process for the production of 11-alpha-hydroxylation steroids with Panaeolus. US3,149,050A (1964)

Process for 11-hydroxylation of steroids US Patent 3,119,748 (1964)

Process for the production of cyclopentanophenanthrene derivatives. US Patent 3,118,822A (1961) & CA767,617 (1967)

With A. Bowers, J.A. Zderic & C. Djerassi. Process for the production of equilin DE1143199B (1959)

With A. Bowers & H.J. Ringold. Process for the manufacture of hydroxypregnene compounds AU4144758A & AU233010B2 (1959)

With H.J. Ringold & A. Bowers. Process for the preparation of hydroxypregnane compounds DE1118196B (1958) & CH383370A (1958)

With H.J. Ringold, O. Mancera, J. Rosenkranz & A. Zaffaroni. Process for the production of new Halogenpregnanverbindungen DE1088487B (1958)