Advances and Applications in Molecular Enzymology

Dear Colleagues,

Microbes are the key for the production of various valuable enzymes and the application of these enzymes to bioproduct development. Microbial enzymes offer extensive and increasingly significant advantages over chemical catalysts since they are derived from renewable resources and are biodegradable. Molecular enzyme technology has become one of the vital research areas in the field of natural sciences. Over five hundred industrial enzymes are being used for many applications in the agri-food-pharma-environment and other related sectors and constitute a multibillion USD annual market globally. From the molecular enzymology perspective, microbial bioengineering and applied biological sciences approaches, like metabolic engineering, next-generation sequencing, functional genomics, systems, and synthetic biology are the key to engineering microbial cell factories to produce tailor-made enzyme bioprocess. The growing demand for tailor-made enzymes from microorganisms for various applications requires the development of new biosynthetic and bioengineering tools, produced from fungi and bacterial systems. Microbial enzyme engineering includes biotechnological innovation, chemical engineering, drug developments, and applied biorefineries development systems. The application of nanotechnology in enzyme bioprocess design and production has opened new avenues for the application of enzymes in the various sectors, especially in biopharmaceutical and drug delivery systems, helping in designing new and novel recombinant proteins and glycans.

This Special Issue also welcomes submissions exploiting diverse and novel microbes from various extremes/hotspots as pillars for the industry and academic research to develop microbial molecular enzymology platform with potential applications in biopharmaceuticals, biochemicals, and several other relevant sectors.

This Special Issue will publish articles including reviews and research papers with an emphasis on enzyme production and formulations.

Prof. Dr. Gustavo Molina
Guest Editor

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• microbial enzymes
• biosynthesis and bioengineering
• drug development and targets
• enzymes in the environment
• engineered enzymes
• enzymes in agri-food
• enzymatic formulations
• enzyme engineering
• enzymes in biomedical sciences
• green chemistry/technology
• glycans
• molecular evolution
• nanocatalyst and nanotechnology
• pharma enzymes
• recombinant proteins production and purification
• system and synthetic biology