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Industrial Enzymes - Structure, Function and Applications
Edited by Polaina, Julio; MacCabe, Andrew P.
Springer
2007
Hardcover 642 pp ISBN 9781402053764
£135.00
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Man's use of enzymes dates back to the earliest times of civilization. Important human activities such as the
production of certain types of foods and beverages, and the tanning of hides and skins to produce leather
for garments, serendipitously took advantage of enzyme activities. Important advances in our understanding
of the nature of enzymes and their action were made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, seeding the
explosive expansion from the 1950s and 60s onward to the present billion dollar enzyme industry. Recent
developments in the fields of genetic engineering and protein chemistry are bringing ever more powerful means
of analysis to bear on the study of enzyme structure and function that will undoubtedly lead to the rational
modification of enzymes to match specific requirements as well as the design of new enzymes with novel properties.
This volume reviews the most important types of industrial enzymes, covering in a balanced manner
three interrelated aspects of paramount importance for enzyme performance: three-dimensional protein
structure, physicochemical and catalytic properties, and the range of both classical and novel applications.
The material covered will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in biochemistry, biotechnology
and applied microbiology in addition to researchers and industrialists.
Written for undergraduate and graduate students (Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology); libraries;
industries: Biochemical, Pharmaceutical, Food
Contents
Preface. Industrial enzymes in the 21st century. Julio Polaina and Andrew P. MacCabe.
Section A. Carbohydrate Active Enzymes
Chapter 1. Amylolytic enzymes: types, structures and specificities. Martin Machovic and Stefan Janecek
Chapter 2. The use of starch processing enzymes in the food industry. Jósef Synowiecki
Chapter 3. Cellulases for biomass conversion. Qi Xu, William S. Adney, Shi-You Ding and Michael E. Himmel
Chapter 4. Cellulases in the textile industry. Arja Miettinen-Oinonen
Chapter 5. Xylanases: molecular properties and applications. F. I. Javier Pastor, Oscar Gallardo, Julia Sanz-Aparicio
and Pilar Diaz
Chapter 6. Microbial xylanolytic carbohydrate esterases. Evangelos Topakas and Paul Christakopoulos
Chapter 7. Structural and biochemical properties of pectinases. Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi, N. Manoj and D.
Sunil Kumar
Chapter 8. a-L-Rhamnosidases: old and new insights. Paloma Manzanares, Salvador Vallés, Daniel Ramón and
Margarita Orejas
Chapter 9. Application of glycosidases and transglycosidases in the synthesis of oligosaccharides. Francisco J. Plou,
Aránzazu Gómez de Segura and Antonio Ballesteros
Section B. Peptidases
Chapter 10. An introduction to peptidases and the MEROPS database. Neil D. Rawlings, Fraser R. Morton and
Alan J. Barrett
Chapter 11. Cysteine proteases. Zbigniew Grzonka, Franciszek Kasprzykowski and Wieslaw Wiczk
Chapter 12. Subtilisin. John Donlon
Chapter 13. Aspartic proteases used in cheese making. Félix Claveríe-Martín and María C. Vega-Hernández
Chapter 14. Metalloproteases. Johanna Mansfeld
Chapter 15. Aminopeptidases. Yolanda Sanz
Section C. Lipases
Chapter 16. Lipases: molecular structure and function. Marina Lotti and Lilia Alberghina
Chapter 17. Use of lipases in the industrial production of esters. Soundar Divakar and Balaraman Manohar
Chapter 18. Use of lipases in organic synthesis. Vicente Gotor-Fernández and Vicente Gotor
Chapter 19. Use of lipases for the production of biodiesel. Andrea Salis, Maura Monduzzi and Vincenzo Solinas
Chapter 20. Use of lipases in the synthesis of structured lipids in supercritical carbon dioxide. José da Cruz
Francisco, Simon P. Gough and Estera S. Dey
Section D. Nucleic Acids Enzymes
Chapter 21. Restriction and homing endonucleases. Krzysztof J. Skowronek and Janusz M. Bujnicki
Chapter 22. DNA polymerases for PCR applications. Regen Drouin, Walid Dridi and Oumar Samasekou
Chapter 23. Prokaryotic reverse transcriptases. Bert Lampson
Chapter 24. Dicer: structure, function and role in RNA-dependent gene-silencing pathways. Justin M. Pare and Tom
C. Hobman
Section E. Oxidoreductases and Other Enzymes of Diverse Function
Chapter 25. Hydrogen peroxide producing and decomposing enzymes: their use in biosensors and other applications.
Nóra Adányi, Teréz Barna, Tamás Emri, Márton Miskei and István Pócsi
Chapter 26. Laccases: biological functions, molecular structure and industrial applications. Miguel Alcalde
Chapter 27. High redox potential peroxidases. Angel Martinez
Chapter 28. Amino acid dehydrogenases. Stephen Y. K. Seah
Chapter 29. Phytase: source, structure and application. Xin Gen Lei, Jesus M. Porres, Edward J. Mullaney and
Henrik Brinch-Pedersen
Chapter 30. Nitrile hydrolases. Praveen Kaul, Anirban Banerjee and Uttam Chand Banerjee
Chapter 31. Aspartases: molecular structure, biochemical function and biotechnological applications. Tomohiro
Mizobata and Yasushi Kawata
Chapter 32. Transglutaminases. María J. Arrizubieta
Chapter 33. Penicillin acylases. David W. Spence and Martin Ramsden
Chapter 34. Hydantoinases. Yun-Peng Chao, Chung-Jen Chiang, Jong-Tzer Chern and Jason T. C. Tzen
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