A Broader View: Microbial Enzymes and Their Relevance in Industries, Medicine, and Beyond

By N. Gurung, S. Ray, S. Bose, Vivek Rai. BioMed Research International, 2013

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Enzymes are the large biomolecules that are required for the numerous chemical interconversions that sustain life. They accelerate all the metabolic processes in the body and carry out a specific task. Enzymes are highly efficient, which can increase reaction rates by 100 million to 10 billion times faster than any normal chemical reaction. Due to development in recombinant technology and protein engineering, enzymes have evolved as an important molecule that has been widely used in different industrial and therapeutical purposes. Microbial enzymes are currently acquiring much attention with rapid development of enzyme technology. Microbial enzymes are preferred due to their economic feasibility, high yields, consistency, ease of product modification and optimization, regular supply due to absence of seasonal fluctuations, rapid growth of microbes on inexpensive media, stability, and greater catalytic activity. Microbial enzymes play a major role in the diagnosis, treatment, biochemical investigation, and monitoring of various dreaded diseases. Amylase and lipase are two very important enzymes that have been vastly studied and have great importance in different industries and therapeutic industry. In this review, an approach has been made to highlight the importance of different enzymes with special emphasis on amylase and lipase in the different industrial and medical fields.

Subfields: Biotechnology, Molecular Biology

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• Microbial Enzymes Used in Bioremediation (2021, background): “Microbial lipase has full commercial application in the bioremediation of oil residues, petroleum contaminants, effluents, and soil recovery [140] as well as applicable in various industries, including therapeutic, polymerization, pulp and paper, and cosmetic industries due to their low energy requi”
• Microbial cellulolytic enzymes: diversity and biotechnology with reference to lignocellulosic biomass degradation (2020, background): “These unique properties have led to efforts for their optimum production and subsequently for novel and competitive uses in numerous industrial bio-processes (Adrio and Demain 2014; Gurung et al. 2013).”
• Antioxidants and Antioxidant Enzymes in Higher Plants (2018, background): “Thermostability studies are important for improving the biotechnological application of POXs in food and the pharmaceutical industry, and environmental protection (Bansal and Kanwar 2013; Gurung et al. 2013).”
• Microbial enzymes: industrial progress in 21st century (2016, background): “…of microbial enzymes in food, pharmaceutical, textile, paper, leather, and other industries are numerous and increasing rapidly over conventional methods due to less harm to the environment, greater efficiency, and the higher quality products (Jordon 1929; Kamini et al. 1999; Gurung et al. 2013).”