Microbial Enzymes: Tools for Biotechnological Processes

Microbial enzymes are of great importance in the development of industrial bioprocesses. Current applications are focused on many different markets including pulp and paper, leather, detergents and textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemical, food and beverages, biofuels, animal feed and personal care, among others. Today there is a need for new, improved or/and more versatile enzymes in order to develop more novel, sustainable and economically competitive production processes. Microbial diversity and modern molecular techniques, such as metagenomics and genomics, are being used to discover new microbial enzymes whose catalytic properties can be improved/modified by different strategies based on rational, semi-rational and random directed evolution. Most industrial enzymes are recombinant forms produced in bacteria and fungi.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Biomolecules

• Publication date

  2014-01-16

• Fields of study

  Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/biom4010117PMID 24970208PMCID 4030981
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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