From Molecular Understanding to Everyday Applications: Improving Biocatalysts through Protein Engineering and Enzyme Immobilization
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 94
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biocatalyst; enzyme research; enzyme technology; biotechnology; proteins; immobilization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Though history, nature has provided us with an amazing collection of biocatalysts that have helped us solve a diverse set of challenges, from everyday tasks such as food manufacturing and cleaning to history-changing medical, industrial and hopefully environmental milestones, saving and improving lives through the development and implementation of new and improved bioprocesses and enzyme-based technologies. As quickly as we discover new enzyme variants and develop novel biocatalytic processes, we develop the need for better, faster and stronger enzymes to increase the efficiency and economic feasibility of such processes.
Improving biocatalysts present researchers with multiple challenges, but also with many opportunities to explore, understand and use soluble, immobilized enzymes and whole organisms for novel approaches for the synthesis, manufacturing, processing and application of industrial or consumer goods and services, aiming to increase the sustainability and decrease the economic and environmental impact of our activities, looking to the future.
We have seen the potential of directed enzyme evolution and enzyme immobilization for improving biocatalysts; the advances in protein structure prediction have supported rational enzyme design, and the advent of massive databases containing immense opportunities to find, design, combine and even travel to the past to revive ancestral versions of industrial or consumer-relevant enzymes.
In this special Issue “From Molecular Understanding to Everyday Applications: Improving Biocatalysts through Protein Engineering and Enzyme Immobilization” we invite you to submit your relevant research work, reviews and perspectives on this subject, and hope that you can contribute to a relevant and meaningful collection in the topic of biocatalysis and enzyme engineering.
Dr. Ronny Martínez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- enzyme technology
- engineering
- biocatalysis
- immobilization
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