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Enzyme Technology Prospects and Their Biomedical Applications

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Enzymes are natural catalysts and protein molecules executing specialized catalysis of substrate to product in chemical reactions. Enzyme technology uses enzyme as a biocatalyst to manufacture new products in bulk in the most dynamic fields such as food, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biofuels, and biopolymers. The most common types of industrial enzymes are proteases, amylases, lipase, cellulases, and xylanases. Enzymes are now increasingly being used in medical application such as therapeutics, drug delivery, diagnostic, new drug development, bioanalysis, and biosensors. Examples of some biomedical enzymes are cytochrome oxidase, creatine kinase, streptokinase, urokinase, trypsin, chymotrypsin, and serratiopeptidase. New advancements in “white biotechnology,” mainly in protein engineering, have offered imperative techniques for the effective development of new enzymes using directed evolution. The present paper aims to provide a review on industrial enzymes, stressing on recent advances in enzyme engineering and applications in medical field.

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    Neha V. Agrawal & Nayana A. Patil

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Agrawal, N.V., Patil, N.A. (2020). Enzyme Technology Prospects and Their Biomedical Applications. In: Vyas, R. (eds) Advances in Bioengineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2063-1_9

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