The massive waste of poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET) that ends up in the landfills and
oceans and needs hundreds of years for degradation has attracted global concern. The poor …

Microbial enzymes are of great importance in the development of industrial bioprocesses.
Current applications are focused on many different markets including pulp and paper …

Asymmetric catalysis plays a key role in modern synthetic organic chemistry, with synthetic
catalysts and enzymes being the two available options. During the latter part of the last …

Many research groups successfully rely on whole-gene random mutagenesis and
recombination approaches for the directed evolution of enzymes. Recent advances in …

The secretory production of recombinant proteins by the Gram-negative bacterium
Escherichia coli has several advantages over intracellular production as inclusion bodies. In …

The efficient application of biocatalysts requires the availability of suitable enzymes with
high activity and stability under process conditions, desired substrate selectivity and high …

Endolysins are double-stranded DNA bacteriophage-encoded peptidoglycan hydrolases
produced in phage-infected bacterial cells toward the end of the lytic cycle. They reach the …

Study of mutations that improve enzyme properties reveals that in many, but not all, cases
closer mutations are more effective than distant ones. For enantioselectivity, substrate …

Nature provides a fantastic array of catalysts extremely well suited to supporting life, but
usually not so well suited for technology. Whether biocatalysis will have a significant …

In the past couple of decades, cross linked enzyme aggregates (CLEAs) have emerged as a
novel and versatile carrier free immobilization technique. The immobilization of enzymes as …