Polysaccharide Degrading Biocatalysts provides a thorough grounding in these biocatalytic processes and their growing role in the depolymerization of polysaccharides, thus 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 hydrolysis of polysaccharides, among other topics and related research protocols. Final sections consider perspectives and challenges in an evolving carbohydrate-based economy. Describes the role of enzymes in the degradation of polysaccharides to obtain building blocks for biochemical processes Covers new tools for enzymatic evolution, research protocols, and process strategies that contribute to large-scale applications Explores the use of polysaccharide hydrolysis products in the areas of pharmaceuticals, fuels and food engineering Features chapter contributions from international experts INDICE: 1. Structural Polysaccharides: deconstruction and characterization protocols 2. Genetic modification of plant cell walls to increase the accessibility of polysaccharide degrading enzymes 3. Polysaccharide degradation routes: microbial and enzymatic - general methodological approach 4. From conventional to innovative tools in the future of polysaccharide degrading biocatalystis 5. Pretreatments as a key for enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass 6. Cellulases: new insights and limitations 7. Hemicellulose degrading enzymes: the importance of accessory enzymes 8. How ligninolytic enzymes can help in the degradation of biomass polysaccharides: cleavage and catalytic mechanisms 9. Latest and promising applications of amylases 10. Hydrolysis of complex pectin structures: biocatalysis and bioproducts 11. Algae polysaccharides: biocatalysts for biorefinery 12. Step by step to develop a polysaccharide-based biomass valorization process - from lab to industrial scale 13. Polysaccharide degradation products: building blocks for chemicals and biochemical platforms 14. Polysaccharide degradation for oligosaccharide production with nutraceutical potential for food industry 15. Biomass-derived monomers for enzymatic production of rare sugar with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry 16. Enzyme Immobilization for hydrolysis of polysaccharides 17. Carbohydrate-based economy: perspectives and challenges
- ISBN: 978-0-323-99986-1
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2023
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés