Biocatalysis Technologies: Fundamentals and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Today’s petroleum-based chemical approach is causing serious environmental and economic problems. Modern biotechnology using isolated enzymes or whole microbial cells as biocatalysts has been considered as the key solution and, hence, is being extensively applied in a wide range of industrial sectors.

With revolutionary advances in engineering technologies for both enzymes (i.e., protein engineering) and microbial cells (i.e., genome editing), commercial-scale applications of biocatalysts are expected to substitute established chemical processes in the near future. The impact of these techniques was recognized when awarding Frances Arnold (2018) and Jennifer Doudna (2020) the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the directed evolution of proteins and the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-gene editing, respectively.

This Special Issue “Biocatalysis Technologies: Fundamentals and Applications” will focus on recent advances and new perspectives in the biotechnological applications of enzymes and microbial whole-cell systems. The scope of this Special Issue will range from the basic characteristics of emerging biocatalysts to their practical applications with focus on current engineering technologies.

We look forward to receiving your contributions to these fascinating fields.

Dr. In Jung Kim
Dr. Thomas Bayer
Guest Editors

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• biocatalysis
• enzyme
• whole-cell biotransformation
• microbial biotechnology
• biosynthesis
• protein engineering
• metabolic engineering