Research on Seaweed-Degrading Enzymes
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 50
Special Issue Editors
Interests: discovering; enzymatic and structural characterization; novel marine polysaccharide-degrading enzymes
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Interests: enzymatic character of marine organisms and microorganisms; exploitation of utilization of marine algae; development of genome editing method for marine algae
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Interests: red algae; marine invertebrates; phycoerythrin; xyloorigosaccharide; marine enzymes; marine collagen; chloroplast DNA; antihypertension; prebiotics; antioxidation; antidiabetes
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Dear Colleagues,
Seaweed polysaccharides are drawing increasing attention due to their various biological activities and functions. Seaweed oligosaccharides, in particular, are of interest, which are prepared from seaweed polysaccharides by seaweed-degrading enzymes, possess beneficial properties, including anti-bacterial, antitumor, antiviral, anticoagulant, and anti-inflammatory abilities, and hold great value and promising potential in the food, cosmetics, and the healthcare industries.
Therefore, the exploitation of enzymes that can efficiently degrade marine polysaccharides is growing and is important for the production of high-value products from seaweed biomasses.
Marine Drugs is planning to publish a Special Issue on “Research on Seaweed-Degrading Enzymes”. The Special Issue will focus on the identification, isolation, purification, and biochemical properties of enzymes from marine organisms, which can degrade seaweed polysaccharides such as agar, ulvan, fucoidan, alginate, carrageenan, laminarin, etc., and the bioactive properties of their hydrolytic products for industrial application
Prof. Dr. Benwei Zhu
Dr. Yuya Kumagai
Prof. Dr. Hideki Kishimura
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seaweed polysaccharides and oligosaccharides
- action mode and catalytic mechanism
- enzyme immobilization
- expression and purification
- directed evolution
- rational design
- enzyme-coupled bioreactor
- structural analysis
- oligosaccharides preparation
- bioactivity and applications
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