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Microbial Enzyme Engineering: Applications and Perspectives

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Enzymes are fascinating the researchers because of their enormous power of catalysis and eco-friendly nature. In biotechnological processes, diversity of microbes is studied, and different metabolic reactions entitle a potential repository that direct valuable production of desirable products. Since community demands are getting more intensified, there is a continuous need to evolve the enzymes. There has been an immense development in techniques and computational tools that has developed the industries to meet the growing demands. The techniques such as protein engineering help in development of quality products by mutating the amino acids to make more stable and efficient product. Further, the techniques like enzyme immobilization give the opportunity to reuse the used enzyme with the same efficiency, thus a cost-effective measure for the industrial enzyme. Nanotechnology and CLEA formation are also incorporated in enzyme engineering to increase enzyme efficiency and their characteristics.

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  1. Enzyme Technology and Protein Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, 124001, Haryana, India

    Vishal Kumar, Mehak Baweja & Pratyoosh Shukla

  2. State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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Kumar, V., Baweja, M., Liu, H., Shukla, P. (2017). Microbial Enzyme Engineering: Applications and Perspectives. In: Shukla, P. (eds) Recent advances in Applied Microbiology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5275-0_13

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