Exclusive Papers of the Editorial Board Members (EBMs) in the Section "Biocatalysis"

A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Biocatalysis".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 560

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Special Issue, <Exclusive Papers of the Editorial Board Members (EBMs) in the Section “Biocatalysis”>. This will be a collection of papers edited by the Editorial Board Members of the Section “Biocatalysis”.  It focuses on highlighting recent interesting investigations conducted in the laboratories of our section’s EBMs and represents our journal as an attractive open access publishing platform for research data into enzymes and whole-cell biocatalysis.

We look forward to receiving many outstanding submissions on the topics above, which will contribute to the creation of an important Special Issue in this journal. 

Prof. Dr. Evangelos Topakas
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • biocatalyst immobilization
  • biocatalytic cascade reactions
  • bioelectrochemistry
  • biotransformations
  • cell factory
  • chemo-biocatalytic processes
  • computational biocatalysis
  • design of biocatalytic processes
  • environmental biocatalysis
  • enzymatic polymerization and polymer modification
  • enzyme formulation
  • flow biocatalysis
  • industrial biocatalysis
  • metabolic engineering
  • novel enzymes
  • protein engineering
  • reaction engineering in biocatalytic systems

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A Recurring Misconception Regarding the Fitting and Plotting of Enzyme Kinetics Data Leads to the Loss of Significant Reaction Parameters and Rate Constants
by Emmanuel M. Papamichael and Panagiota-Yiolanda Stergiou
Catalysts 2025, 15(6), 582; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal15060582 - 11 Jun 2025
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In recent years, an increasing number of published articles on biocatalysis have reported new enzymes that exhibit biotechnologically interesting catalytic activities. Some authors rush to publish their work in an attempt to ensure “novelty” and often present their results with various types of [...] Read more.
In recent years, an increasing number of published articles on biocatalysis have reported new enzymes that exhibit biotechnologically interesting catalytic activities. Some authors rush to publish their work in an attempt to ensure “novelty” and often present their results with various types of graphs, such as scatter plots or line-and-symbol plots using nonexistent parameters as ordinates, e.g., “Relative Activity (%)” and the like, vs. abscissae such as pH value, temperature, etc. Nevertheless, in vitro enzyme kinetics remains a valuable tool for understanding, optimizing, and effectively applying these biocatalysts under diverse reaction conditions, taking advantage of all available experimental results. This work aims to emphasize the importance of processing experimental data from enzymatic reactions through appropriate fitting with known kinetic equations and to discourage the use of nonexistent parameters. To support this integrated approach, specific examples are provided for the calculation of significant kinetic and thermodynamic parameters, as well as rate constants. Full article
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