Broadening the scope of biocatalysis in sustainable organic synthesis

RA Sheldon, D Brady - ChemSusChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This Review is aimed at synthetic organic chemists who may be familiar with organometallic
catalysis but have no experience with biocatalysis, and seeks to provide an answer to the …

Thermozymes: adaptive strategies and tools for their biotechnological applications

S Kumar, AK Dangi, P Shukla, D Baishya… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
In today's scenario of global climate change, there is a colossal demand for sustainable
industrial processes and enzymes from thermophiles. Plausibly, thermozymes are an …

Engineering acyl-homoserine lactone-interfering enzymes toward bacterial control

R Billot, L Plener, P Jacquet, M Elias… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Enzymes able to degrade or modify acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) have drawn
considerable interest for their ability to interfere with the bacterial communication process …

Biocatalysis–Key enabling tools from biocatalytic one-step and multi-step reactions to biocatalytic total synthesis

R Wohlgemuth - New biotechnology, 2021 - Elsevier
In the area of human-made innovations to improve the quality of life, biocatalysis has
already had a great impact and contributed enormously to a growing number of catalytic …

Analysis of 16S rRNA primer systems for profiling of thermophilic microbial communities

AY Merkel, IY Tarnovetskii, OA Podosokorskaya… - Microbiology, 2019 - Springer
Thermophilic microorganisms are of special interest for phylogenetics and research in
prokaryotic evolution, since many of them belong to deep branches of the tree of life. For this …

High potential for biomass-degrading enzymes revealed by hot spring metagenomics

NJ Reichart, RM Bowers, T Woyke… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Enzyme stability and activity at elevated temperatures are important aspects in
biotechnological industries, such as the conversion of plant biomass into biofuels. In order to …

Application of extremophile cell factories in industrial biotechnology

Y Wang, J Qian, T Shi, Y Wang, Q Ding, C Ye - Enzyme and Microbial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the extreme living conditions, extremophiles have unique characteristics in
morphology, structure, physiology, biochemistry, molecular evolution mechanism and so on …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing extremophilic carboxylesterases for applications in polyester depolymerisation and plastic waste recycling

GB Williams, H Ma, AN Khusnutdinova… - Essays in …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
The steady growth in industrial production of synthetic plastics and their limited recycling
have resulted in severe environmental pollution and contribute to global warming and oil …

AidB, a Novel Thermostable N-Acylhomoserine Lactonase from the Bacterium Bosea sp

JW Zhang, CG Xuan, CH Lu, S Guo, JF Yu… - Applied and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Many Gram-negative bacteria employ N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) as quorum-
sensing (QS) signal molecules to regulate virulence expression in a density-dependent …

[HTML][HTML] A novel endo-1, 4-β-xylanase from Alicyclobacillus mali FL18: Biochemical characterization and its synergistic action with β-xylosidase in hemicellulose …

F Salzano, M Aulitto, G Fiorentino, D Cannella… - International journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract A novel endo-1, 4-β-xylanase-encoding gene was identified in Alicyclobacillus mali
FL18 and the recombinant protein, named AmXyn, was purified and biochemically …