The catalytic properties of some selected enzymes have long been exploited to carry out
efficient and cost-effective bioconversions in a multitude of research and industrial sectors …

In today's world, there is an increasing trend towards the use of renewable, cheap and
readily available biomass in the production of a wide variety of fine and bulk chemicals in …

Industrial enzyme market has been projected to reach US $6.2 billion by 2020. Major
reasons for continuous rise in the global sales of microbial enzymes are because of …

Modern enzyme development relies to an increasing extent on strategies based on diversity
generation followed by screening for variants with optimised properties. In principle, these …

Food and feed is possibly the area where processing anchored in biological agents has the
deepest roots. Despite this, process improvement or design and implementation of novel …

Systematic approaches to directed evolution of proteins have been documented since the
1970s. The ability to recruit new protein functions arises from the considerable substrate …

Abstract α-Amylases is one of the most important industrial enzyme which contributes to
25% of the industrial enzyme market. Though it is produced by plant, animals and microbial …

Abstract Maltogenic amylase (MAA)(EC3. 2.1. 133), a member of the glycoside hydrolase
family 13 that mainly produces α-maltose, is widely used to extend the shelf life of bread as it …

Current challenges and promises of white biotechnology encourage protein engineers to
use a directed evolution approach to generate novel and useful biocatalysts for various sets …

Amylases hydrolyze starch to diverse products including dextrins and progressively smaller
polymers of glucose units. Thermally stable amylases account for nearly 25% of the enzyme …