Biocatalysis: Enzymatic Basics and Applications

✍ Scribed by Qayyum Husain, Mohammad Fahad Ullah

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces readers to industrially important enzymes and discusses in detail their structures and functions, as well as their manifold applications. Due to their selective biocatalytic capabilities, enzymes are used in a broad range of industries and processes. The book highlights selected enzymes and their applications in agriculture, food processing and discoloration, as well as their role in biomedicine. In turn, it discusses biochemical engineering strategies such as enzyme immobilization, metabolic engineering, and cross-linkage of enzyme aggregates, and critically weighs their pros and cons.

Offering a wealth of information, and stimulating further research by presenting new concepts on enzymatic catalytic functions in basic and applied contexts, the book represents a valuable asset for researchers from academia and industry who are engaged in biochemical engineering, microbiology and biotechnology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
DNAzymes: Synthetic Enzymes Made of DNA (Meghan Rothenbroker, Sandy Zakaria, Devon Morrison, Yingfu Li)....Pages 1-16
β-Amylase: General Properties, Mechanism and Panorama of Applications by Immobilization on Nano-Structures (Ranjana Das, Arvind M. Kayastha)....Pages 17-38
Oxidoreductases: Overview and Practical Applications (Hina Younus)....Pages 39-55
Rieske Non-Heme Iron Dioxygenases: Applications and Future Perspectives (Fatma Feyza Özgen, Sandy Schmidt)....Pages 57-82
Cross-linked Enzyme Aggregates: Current Developments and Applications (Rubia Noori, Mohammad Perwez, Meryam Sardar)....Pages 83-112
Immobilization of α-amylases and Their Analytical Applications (Om Prakash, Saumya Khare)....Pages 113-138
Immobilized Peroxidase Catalyzed Decolorization and Degradation of Industrially Important Dyes from Polluted Water (Qayyum Husain)....Pages 139-166
Screening, Optimization and Assembly of Key Pathway Enzymes in Metabolic Engineering (Yanfeng Liu, Long Liu)....Pages 167-176
Designing of Artificial Metalloenzymes (Srishti Jha, Abdul Arif Khan, Mohd. Tashfeen Ashraf)....Pages 177-191
Anti-inflammatory and Antidote Drug Discovery with Secreted Phospholipase A2 (Ramakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Atanu Bhattacharjee, Velmurugan Devadasan)....Pages 193-211
Clinical Significance of Enzymes in Disease and Diagnosis (Mohammad Fahad Ullah, Showket H. Bhat, Muhammad Tariq, Faisel M. Abuduhier)....Pages 213-231
Enzymes in Food and Feed Industries: Where Tradition Meets Innovation (Pedro Fernandes)....Pages 233-253
Microbial Enzymes in Food Processing (Praveen Kumar Mehta, Shelly Sehgal)....Pages 255-275
Significance of Enzymes and Their Application in Agriculture (Anna Piotrowska-Długosz)....Pages 277-308
Proteinaceous Trypsin Inhibitors from Plants in Disarming the Insect Pest (Farrukh Jamal, Sangram Singh, Prabhash Kumar Pandey, Ranjan Singh)....Pages 309-331

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences; Enzymology; Catalysis; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology