Vanadium is a trace element, which may be beneficial and possibly essential in humans1
but certainly essential for some living organisms. 2r11 Metal ions and thus vanadium ions …

Covering: up to July 2023 Terpene cyclases (TCs) catalyze some of the most complicated
reactions in nature and are responsible for creating the skeletons of more than 95 000 …

Marine biofouling—the colonization of small marine microorganisms on surfaces that are
directly exposed to seawater, such as ships' hulls—is an expensive problem that is currently …

This review summarizes recent aspects of (di) nitrogen fixation and (di) hydrogen
metabolism, with emphasis on cyanobacteria. These organisms possess several types of the …

From reviews to the first edtion:" Bornscheuer and Kazlauskas have set out, and succeeded,
in producing a definitive manual on hydrolytic enzymes (especially lipases, esterases, and …

Several contemporary enzymes catalyze alternative reactions distinct from their normal
biological reactions. In some cases the alternative reaction is similar to a reaction that is …

Glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase), an enzyme found mainly in the liver and the kidneys,
plays the important role of providing glucose during starvation. Unlike most phosphatases …

Mg 2+-dependent phosphatidate (PA) phosphatase (3-sn-phosphatidate phosphohydrolase,
EC 3.1. 3.4) catalyzes the dephosphorylation of PA to yield diacylglycerol and P i. In this …

Biocatalysis has expanded rapidly in the last decades with the discoveries of highly
stereoselective enzymes with broad substrate specificity. A new frontier for biocatalysis is …

The review deals with phytase-producing microorganisms along with optimum conditions for
its production. Various methods used for purifying phytases and their characteristics are …