Bacterial Laccases

Engineering, Immobilization, Heterologous Production, and Industrial Applications

Deepti Yadav, Tukayi Kudanga

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780323918893
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323914574
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biochemistry
• Index: Biological Sciences

Bacterial Laccases: Engineering, Immobilization, Heterologous Production, and Industrial Applications provides a list of approaches that upgrades bacterial laccases to industrially relevant enzymes. Providing protocols for enzyme production and downstream processing, and including up-to-date information on bacterial laccases, as well as techniques that can be explored to enhance properties and production levels, this book clarifies research gaps and explains how they can be dealt with. Written for research scholars working on enzymes, this is a valuable tool for industries and policymakers. - Leads to a better understanding of traditional and novel methodologies for enhancing production and properties of bacterial laccases - Serves as a useful guide for researchers, industrialists and students - Includes chapters written by experts known for their contributions in respective areas - Describes the latest advances made in the field of bacterial laccases, including strategies that could be undertaken to improve their utility at an industrial level - Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date review of bacterial laccases and their important applications

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• List of contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Bacterial laccases: a general introduction
• Chapter 2 Agro-industrial wastes in bacterial laccase production by submerged and solid-state fermentation
• Chapter 3 Recombinant laccase production: Escherichia coli, Pichia pastoris, and filamentous fungi as microbial factories
• Chapter 4 Challenges in recovery and purification of laccases
• Chapter 5 Laccase engineering: tailoring laccases for effective and efficient catalysis
• Chapter 6 Immobilization for enhancement of laccase reusability
• Chapter 7 Emerging contaminants and their possible bioremediation through bacterial laccases
• Chapter 8 Bacterial laccases as versatile catalysts in material surface functionalization
• Chapter 9 Bacterial laccase-like multicopper oxidases in delignification and detoxification processes
• Chapter 10 Laccases in organic synthesis
• Chapter 11 Versatility of microbial laccases in industrial applications
• Index