Biocatalysis Enzymatic Basics and Applications
This book introduces readers to industrially important enzymes and discusses in detail their structures and functions, as well as their manifold applications. Due to their selective biocatalytic capabilities, enzymes are used in a broad range of indu
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ocatalysis Enzymatic Basics and Applications
Biocatalysis
Qayyum Husain • Mohammad Fahad Ullah Editors
Biocatalysis Enzymatic Basics and Applications
Editors Qayyum Husain Department of Biochemistry Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India
Mohammad Fahad Ullah Department of Medical Laboratory Technology FAMS, University of Tabuk Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
ISBN 978-3-030-25022-5 ISBN 978-3-030-25023-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25023-2
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Foreword
Enzymes are known to do wonders for cellular life. If you could peek into an actively grown E. coli cell, you would find about 1000 different types of enzymes actively performing their work to keep the little bacterial cell live and vibrant. For an even more complex biological system like our human body, the number of enzymes that are required to carry out coordinated functions essential to life is simply mesmerizing; for example, a human cell utilizes approximately 75,000 enzymes to do its chores. Enzymes are endowed with necessary powers to build things or take things apart as needed when a cell grows and reproduces. A cell can be simplistically viewed as a microscale biological world filled with enzymes to process all kinds of molecules using fast chemical reactions. Because of the importance of enzymes to cellular life, functional and biochemical investigation of enzymes has been an important discipline of modern science.
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However, humans are best known for learning and applying. As a result of our excellent understanding of properties of a diverse array of cellular enzymes, the scientific community has invented many ingenious ways of
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