Polysaccharide Degrading Biocatalysts

Herausgeber: Goldbeck, Rosana; Poletto, Patricia

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Produktbeschreibung

The transformation of polysaccharides into valuable compounds for health and industry requires the careful application of enzyme protocols and controlled biocatalysis. Polysaccharide-Degrading Biocatalysts provides a thorough grounding in these biocatalytic processes and their growing role in the depolymerization of polysaccharides, empowering researchers to discover and develop new enzyme-based approaches across pharmaceuticals, fuels, and food engineering. Here, over a dozen leading experts offer a close examination of structural polysaccharides, genetic modification of polysaccharides, polysaccharide degradation routes, pretreatments for enzymatic hydrolysis, hemicellulose-degrading enzymes, biomass valorization processes, oligosaccharide production, and enzyme immobilization for the hydrolysis of polysaccharides, among other topics and related research protocols. A final chapter considers perspectives and challenges in an evolving, carbohydrate-based economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 190mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780323999861
• ISBN-10: 0323999867
• Artikelnr.: 64140890

Inhaltsangabe

1. Plant cell wall polysaccharides: Methodologies for compositional,
structural, and physicochemical characterization 2. Genetic modification of
plants to increase the saccharification of lignocellulose 3. The diversity
of plant carbohydrate hydrolysis in nature and technology 4.
State-of-the-art experimental and computational approaches to investigate
structure, substrate recognition, and catalytic mechanism of enzymes 5.
Pretreatments as a key for enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass
6. Importance of accessory enzymes in hemicellulose degradation 7. How
ligninolytic enzymes can help in the degradation of biomass
polysaccharides, cleavage, and catalytic mechanisms? 8. Biochemical and
biotechnological aspects of microbial amylases 9. Hydrolysis of complex
pectin structures: Biocatalysis and bioproducts 10. Macroalgal
polysaccharides: Biocatalysts in biofuel/bioenergy production 11.
Mathematical modeling of the enzymatic hydrolysis of polysaccharides: A
primer 12. Polysaccharide deconstruction products: Production of bio-based
building blocks 13. Polysaccharide degradation for oligosaccharide
production with nutraceutical potential for the food industry 14.
Carbohydrate-active enzymes in the production of lactose-derived tagatose
15. Immobilized biocatalysts for hydrolysis of polysaccharides 16.
Carbohydrate-based economy: Perspectives and challenges