Microbial Cellulases and Their Industrial Applications

By R. C. Kuhad, Rishi Gupta, Ajay K. Singh. Enzyme Research, 2011

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Microbial cellulases have shown their potential application in various industries including pulp and paper, textile, laundry, biofuel production, food and feed industry, brewing, and agriculture. Due to the complexity of enzyme system and immense industrial potential, cellulases have been a potential candidate for research by both the academic and industrial research groups. Nowadays, significant attentions have been devoted to the current knowledge of cellulase production and the challenges in cellulase research especially in the direction of improving the process economics of various industries. Scientific and technological developments and the future prospects for application of cellulases in different industries are discussed in this paper.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• The Enzymatic Conversion of Major Algal and Cyanobacterial Carbohydrates to Bioethanol (2016, background): “21) attacks β-cellobiose disaccharides and cleaves them into two glucose molecules (Figure 2C) (Pérez et al., 2002; Kuhad et al., 2011; Gupta et al., 2013).”
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• Cellulases and xylanases production by endophytic fungi by solid state fermentation using lignocellulosic substrates and enzymatic saccharification of pretreated sugarcane bagasse (2018, background): “Both cellulases and xylanases can be used in several other industrial processes, highlighting the textile, pulping, and animal nutrition sectors (Goswami and Rawat, 2015; Kuhad et al., 2011).”
• Cellulase Production from Species of Fungi and Bacteria from Agricultural Wastes and Its Utilization in Industry: A Review (2016, background): “Cellulose binding domains (CBMs) replaced by a dockerin in cellulosomal complex in free cellulase, and one scaffolding-born CBM directs the complete cellulosomes complex to cellulosic biomass [14] [19].”
• Microbial cellulolytic enzymes: diversity and biotechnology with reference to lignocellulosic biomass degradation (2020, background): “Cellulases from acidophiles are of great commercial value (Kuhad et al. 2011).”
• Microbial enzymes: industrial progress in 21st century (2016, background): “In these industries, amylases uses include starch coating, deinking, improving paper cleanliness and drainage improvement (Kuhad et al. 2011).”
• Cellulase production by thermophilic Bacillus sp: SMIA-2 and its detergent compatibility (2015, background): “Production and hosting by Els and paper industries, as well as in laundry detergents as softening, anti-pilling, and color-reviving agents [6,7,8,9].”
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