Microbial enzymes: tools for biotechnological processes
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Adrio JL
; Demain AL
Biomolecules
2014[Jan]; 4
(1
): 117-39
PMID24970208
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Microbial enzymes are of great importance in the development of industrial
bioprocesses. Current applications are focused on many different markets
including pulp and paper, leather, detergents and textiles, pharmaceuticals,
chemical, food and beverages, biofuels, animal feed and personal care, among
others. Today there is a need for new, improved or/and more versatile enzymes in
order to develop more novel, sustainable and economically competitive production
processes. Microbial diversity and modern molecular techniques, such as
metagenomics and genomics, are being used to discover new microbial enzymes whose
catalytic properties can be improved/modified by different strategies based on
rational, semi-rational and random directed evolution. Most industrial enzymes
are recombinant forms produced in bacteria and fungi.
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