Biodegradation of plastic polymers by fungi: a brief review

M Srikanth, T Sandeep, K Sucharitha… - Bioresources and …, 2022 - Springer
Plastic polymers are non-degradable solid wastes that have become a great threat to the
whole world and degradation of these plastics would take a few decades. Compared with …

Laccase: a multi‐purpose biocatalyst at the forefront of biotechnology

DM Mate, M Alcalde - Microbial biotechnology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Laccases are multicopper containing enzymes capable of performing one electron oxidation
of a broad range of substrates. Using molecular oxygen as the final electron acceptor, they …

A review on the laccase assisted decolourization of dyes: Recent trends and research progress

J Jeyabalan, A Veluchamy, A Kumar… - Journal of the Taiwan …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Increased industrialization and urbanized civilization lead to the evolution of
several persisting hazardous pollutants. In order to degrade these tenacious pollutants in …

Applications of bacterial cellulose in food, cosmetics and drug delivery

H Ullah, HA Santos, T Khan - Cellulose, 2016 - Springer
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a versatile biopolymer with better material properties, such as
purity, high degree of porosity, relative high permeability to liquid and gases, high water …

Laccases: production, expression regulation, and applications in pharmaceutical biodegradation

J Yang, W Li, TB Ng, X Deng, J Lin, X Ye - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Laccases are a family of copper-containing oxidases with important applications in
bioremediation and other various industrial and biotechnological areas. There have been …

Thermophiles and the applications of their enzymes as new biocatalysts

J Atalah, P Cáceres-Moreno, G Espina… - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Ecological and efficient alternatives to industrial processes have sparked interest for using
microorganisms and enzymes as biocatalysts. One of the difficulties is finding candidates …

A scientometric analysis of research progress and trends in the design of laccase biocatalysts for the decolorization of synthetic dyes

AFS Rodrigues, AF da Silva, FLB da Silva… - Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article conducted an advanced and comprehensive scientometric analysis of worldwide
trends in decolorizing synthetic dyes by laccase. Articles were collected, analyzed, and …

Laccase engineering: from rational design to directed evolution

DM Mate, M Alcalde - Biotechnology advances, 2015 - Elsevier
Laccases are multicopper oxidoreductases considered by many in the biotechonology field
as the ultimate “green catalysts”. This is mainly due to their broad substrate specificity and …

Laccases in food industry: Bioprocessing, potential industrial and biotechnological applications

K Mayolo-Deloisa, M González-González… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Laccase is a multi-copper oxidase that catalyzes the oxidation of one electron of a wide
range of phenolic compounds. The enzyme is considered eco-friendly because it requires …

Bioprospecting and biotechnological applications of fungal laccase

P Upadhyay, R Shrivastava, PK Agrawal - 3 Biotech, 2016 - Springer
Laccase belongs to a small group of enzymes called the blue multicopper oxidases, having
the potential ability of oxidation. It belongs to enzymes, which have innate properties of …