
Extremozymes and their Industrial Applications
- 1st Edition - June 15, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Naveen Kumar Arora, Shekhar Agnihotri, Jitendra Mishra
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 2 7 4 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 4 2 3 - 0
Extremophiles belong to members of all three domains of life, i.e., bacteria, archaea, and eukarya. However, a high proportion of extremophiles are archaea and bacteria. These mi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteExtremophiles belong to members of all three domains of life, i.e., bacteria, archaea, and eukarya. However, a high proportion of extremophiles are archaea and bacteria. These microbes live under chemical and physical extremes that are usually lethal to cellular molecules, yet they not only manage to survive but even thrive in such conditions. Extremophiles have important practical and industrial uses. They are a valuable source of industrially important enzymes also known as extremozymes. Recent research has revealed that extremozymes have unique structural features essential for biocatalysis under extreme conditions. Extremozymes have great commercial values and are known for their potential use in biotechnology, biomining, and bioremediation.
Extremozymes and their Industrial Applications highlights the current and topical areas of research in this rapidly growing field of extremophiles and their applications. Expert researchers from around the globe are trying to uncover the underlying mechanisms responsible for their specific adaptations under extreme environments. The topics covered include the ability of acidophiles to maintain a neutral intracellular pH, the way psychrophiles "loosen up" their proteins at low temperatures, and other equally ingenious adaptations and metabolic strategies that extremophiles use to survive and flourish under extreme conditions.
Extremozymes and their Industrial Applications also covers the established biotechnological uses of extremophiles and the most recent and novel applications, including their exploitation for enzyme production. Potential use of extremophiles and their enzymes in the generation of sustainable energy, biomass conversion, agro-waste processing, and biocontrol of phytopathogens is also covered. The book will be very useful for researchers and students working in the area of industrial microbiology and biotechnology, and microbial ecologists. It is also recommended reference text for those interested in the biochemistry and microbiology of extremophiles, as well as for those interested in bioprospecting, biomining, biofuels, and biodegradation.
- Presents information exclusively based on extremozymes and their application in industries
- Chapters have been collected from various experts and deals with contemporary issues related to extremozymes and their usability in various industries
- Enriched with suitable illustrations that assist in increasing readership and broaden the reach of the book amongst scholars and academicians
Research students, academicians and scientists in the area of biochemistry, biotechnology and applied microbiology. Industry related to biochemistry, industrial microbiology/biotechnology
1. Extremozymes and Their Applications
Rajesh Kumar Sani, Dipayan Samanta, Tanvi Govil, Priya Saxena, Payal Thakur and Adhithya Narayanan
2. Enzymes from Extremely Thermophilic Bacteria and Archaea: Current Status and Future Prospects
Tunyaboon Laemthong, April M. Lewis, James R. Crosby, Ryan G. Bing, William H. Schneider, Daniel J. Willard, James A. Counts, and Robert M. Kelly
3. Role of thermophilic cellulases and organisms in the conversion of biomass to biofuels
Supratim Datta, Shubhasish Goswami and Praveen Nath
4. Microbial adaptation to extreme temperatures: An overview of molecular mechanisms to industrial application
Anee Mohanty and Shilpa Sharma, and Sumer Singh Meena
5. Molecular mechanism behind cold and hot adaptation of extremozymes
M Kavitha and Joshua Angelin
6. Microbial thermostable hydrolases (amylase, lipase, keratinase) and polymerases: Biology and Application
Hovik Panosyan, Mane Tadevosyan, Sahak Yeghiazaryan, Armine Margaryan, Diana Ghevondyan and Ani Saghatelyan
7. Molecular Adaptations in Microorganisms for Extremozyme Production
Sunil S. More
8. Application of extremozymes in paper and pulp industries
Vinod Kumar Nathan
9. Genetic and protein engineering of halophilic enzymes
Rosa María Martínez-Espinosa Sr.
10. Halozymes: Sources, catalytic mechanism and potential applications in industries
Gopal Kumar G. Raol, Hiral Chaudhari, Zuhour Wardah and Vimal Prajapati
11. Industrial applications of enzymes from haloarchaea
Rosa María Martínez-Espinosa Sr., Micaela Giani Alonso, Lorena Simó, Guillermo Martínez and Carmen Pire
12. Insights into upstreaming and downstreaming processes of microbial extremozymes
Balwinder Singh Sooch, Baljinder S. Kauldhar, Harpreet Kaur and Venkatesh Meda
13. Reverse micellar systems as a versatile tool on halophilic biocatalysts
Rosa Maria Camacho-Ruiz, José Martín Márquez-Villa, Jorge Alberto Rodríguez-González and Juan Carlos Mateos-Díaz
14. Advances in industrial biocatalysis through immobilized extremozymes
Shekhar Agnihotri, Devendra Sillu and Charu Agnihotri
15. Biocontrol of fungal phytopathogens in saline soils by halophilic chitinase producing microbes
Naveen Arora, Jitendra Mishra and Priya Mishra
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 15, 2022
- No. of pages (Paperback): 442
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323902748
- eBook ISBN: 9780323904230
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