Opportunities for improving biodiesel production via lipase catalysis

FTT Cavalcante, FS Neto, IR de Aguiar Falcão… - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
The rising global demand for sustainable energy resources is resulting in an accelerated
increase in biodiesel consumption. In this sense, studies aimed at tackling process hurdles …

The Hitchhiker's guide to biocatalysis: recent advances in the use of enzymes in organic synthesis

RA Sheldon, D Brady, ML Bode - Chemical science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes are excellent catalysts that are increasingly being used in industry and academia.
This perspective is primarily aimed at synthetic organic chemists with limited experience …

Immobilization of lipases on hydrophobic supports: immobilization mechanism, advantages, problems, and solutions

RC Rodrigues, JJ Virgen-Ortíz, JCS Dos Santos… - Biotechnology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lipases are the most widely used enzymes in biocatalysis, and the most utilized method for
enzyme immobilization is using hydrophobic supports at low ionic strength. This method …

Extremophilic lipases for industrial applications: A general review

K Vivek, GS Sandhia, S Subramaniyan - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
With industrialization and development in modern science enzymes and their applications
increased widely. There is always a hunt for new proficient enzymes with novel properties to …

Recent advances on sources and industrial applications of lipases

N Sarmah, D Revathi, G Sheelu… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Lipases are the industrially important biocatalysts, which are envisioned to have tremendous
applications in the manufacture of a wide range of products. Their unique properties such as …

Industrial biotechnology based on enzymes from extreme environments

NM Mesbah - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Biocatalysis is crucial for a green, sustainable, biobased economy, and this has driven major
advances in biotechnology and biocatalysis over the past 2 decades. There are numerous …

Bacterial lipases: a review on purification and characterization

S Javed, F Azeem, S Hussain, I Rasul… - Progress in biophysics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Lipase (EC 3.1. 1.3) belongs to the hydrolases and is also known as fat splitting,
glycerol ester hydrolase or triacylglycerol acylhydrolase. Lipase catalyzes the hydrolysis of …

[HTML][HTML] FoldX as protein engineering tool: better than random based approaches?

O Buß, J Rudat, K Ochsenreither - Computational and structural …, 2018 - Elsevier
Improving protein stability is an important goal for basic research as well as for clinical and
industrial applications but no commonly accepted and widely used strategy for efficient …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in lipase immobilization: Bibliometric review and patent analysis

FLC Almeida, MPJ Castro, BM Travalia, MBS Forte - Process Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Enzymes have great industrial potential as biocatalysts, particularly lipases, which have
attracted much attention for their extensive applications. As the use of enzymes becomes …

Biocatalysis with unnatural amino acids: enzymology meets xenobiology

F Agostini, JS Völler, B Koksch… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of xenobiology is to design biological systems endowed with unusual biochemical
functions, whereas enzymology concerns the study of enzymes, the workhorses of …