Microbial Biocatalysis
This special issue belongs to the section "Biocatalysis".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biocatalysis is a sustainable alternative for the chemical industry in manufacturing, monitoring, and waste management. Biocatalytic processes perform with isolated enzymes or whole cells as biocatalysts. Whole-cell biocatalysts offer some unique advantages of cascade reactions catalyzed by multienzymes as well as a single bioredox reaction with cofactor regeneration in a single strain. Therefore, whole-cell biocatalysts are widely applied for biosynthesis/biotransformation to produce value-added chemicals as well as the complete mineralization of organic pollutants.
Biological catalytic processing using whole-cell biocatalysts includes biocatalyst engineering, bio-reaction engineering, and downstream processing. In addition to the traditional screening of microbial strains and immobilized whole-cell biocatalysts, modern genetic engineering, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology make tailored whole-cell biocatalysts possible. At the same time, some integrated processes have successfully been applied in the catalytic processing using living whole-cell biocatalyst, such as harnessing biocompatible chemistry to interface with the microbial metabolism as well as using various separation techniques for in situ product removal.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect original research papers and reviews, focusing on progress using living whole-cell biocatalysts in biosynthesis, biotransformation, and biodegradation.
Dr. Zhilong Wang
Dr. Tao Pan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Whole-cell biocatalyst, immobilized cells, genetic engineering, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology
- Bio-reaction engineering, fermentation, interfacial biocatalysis, biocompatible chemistry, chemo-enzymatic cascade reaction, designing bioreactor, process optimization
- Separation engineering, integrated processes, in situ product removal, extractive fermentation
- Biosynthesis, industrial enzymes, antibody, biosurfactant, biopigments, bioflavors, biofuels, bio-based materials, bioactive chemicals
- Biotransformation, drug intermediate, chiral chemical, value-added chemical
- Biodegradation, crude oil, aromatic hydrocarbon, plasticizer, environmental hormone, microplastic, bio-desulfurization
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Catalysts - ISSN 2073-4344