Biotechnology of Microbial Enzymes: Production, Biocatalysis and Industrial Applications

Biotechnology of Microbial Enzymes: Production, Biocatalysis and Industrial Applications provides a complete survey of the latest innovations on microbial enzymes, highlighting biotechnological advances in their production and purification along with information on successful applications as biocatalysts in several chemical and industrial processes under mild and green conditions.

Applications of microbial enzymes in food, feed, and pharmaceutical industries are given particular emphasis. The application of recombinant DNA technology within industrial fermentation and the production of enzymes over the last 20 years have produced a host of useful chemical and biochemical substances. The power of these technologies results in novel transformations, better enzymes, a wide variety of applications, and the unprecedented development of biocatalysts through the ongoing integration of molecular biology methodology, all of which is covered insightfully and in-depth within the book.

Features research on microbial enzymes from basic science through application in multiple industry sectors for a comprehensive approach Includes information on metabolic pathway engineering, metagenomic screening, microbial genomes, extremophiles, rational design, directed evolution, and moreProvides a holistic approach to the research of microbial enzymes

Chapter 1. Useful Microbial Enzymes—An Introduction

Chapter 2. Production, Purification, and Application of Microbial Enzymes

Chapter 3. Solid State Fermentation for Production of Microbial Cellulases

Chapter 4. Hyperthermophilic Subtilisin-Like Proteases From Thermococcus kodakarensis

Chapter 5. Enzymes from Basidiomycetes—Peculiar and Efficient Tools for Biotechnology

Chapter 6. Microbial Production and Molecular Engineering of Industrial Enzymes: Challenges and Strategies

Chapter 7. Metagenomics and the Search for Industrial Enzymes

Chapter 8. The Pocket Manual of Directed Evolution: Tips and Tricks

Chapter 9. Insights into the Structure and Molecular Mechanisms of β-Lactam Synthesizing Enzymes in Fungi

Chapter 10. The Cellulosome: A Supramolecular Assembly of Microbial Biomass-Degrading Enzymes

Chapter 11. Microbial Enzymes of Use in Industry

Chapter 12. Significance of Microbial Glucokinases

Chapter 13. Lipase-Catalyzed Organic Transformations: A Recent Update

Chapter 14. Enzymatic Biocatalysis in Chemical Transformations: A Promising and Emerging Field in Green Chemistry Practice

Chapter 15. Microbial Enzymes for Glycoside Synthesis: Development of Sucrose Phosphorylase as a Test Case

Chapter 16. Industrial Applications of Multistep Enzyme Reactions

Chapter 17. Biocatalysis for Industrial Production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)

Chapter 18. Agro-Industrial Residues and Microbial Enzymes: An Overview on the Eco-Friendly Bioconversion into High Value-Added Products

Chapter 19. Microbial Enzymes for the Food Industry

Chapter 20. Productive Chain of Biofuels and Industrial Biocatalysis: Two Important Opportunities for Brazilian Sustainable Development