Recent Progress in Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering for Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Intermediates
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1274
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biocatalysis; bioenergy
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Dear Colleagues,
Biocatalysis is a benign approach to replace and expand traditional organic synthesis due to its high efficiency, excellent selectivity and mild reaction conditions. Enzyme engineering enables one to adapt catalyst to the desired reaction and process. Recently, various strategies to adapt enzymes for use as catalysts for efficient biocatalysis, such as chemical modification, immobilization, site-directed mutagenesis, directed evolution of enzymes, computational design, substrate engineering and medium engineering, have been successfully developed. Novel biocatalysts and bioprocesses have been effectively utilized for the production of value-added pharmaceutical intermediates for human society.
This Special Issue aims to showcase advancements in biocatalysis and enzyme engineering to enhance their efficiency, specificity and stability in a benign bioreaction system. Original research papers and reviews focused on the frontiers of biocatalysis and enzyme engineering are collected in this Special Issue. Other submissions are also welcome from outside the areas presented above.
Prof. Dr. Yu-Cai He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biochemical engineering
- biocatalysis and biotransformation
- biosynthesis and metabolic engineering
- bioprocess and biosystem engineering
- combination catalysis
- synthetic biology approaches
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