Industrial Enzymes: Structure, Function and Applications Book

Preface. Industrial enzymes in the 21^st century. Julio Polaina and Andrew P. MacCabe.

Section A. Carbohydrate Active Enzymes

Chapter 1. Amylolytic enzymes: types, structures and specificities. Martin Machovic and Stefan Janecek

Chapter 2. The use of starch processing enzymes in the food industry. Jósef Synowiecki

Chapter 3. Cellulases for biomass conversion. Qi Xu, William S. Adney, Shi-You Ding and Michael E. Himmel

Chapter 4. Cellulases in the textile industry. Arja Miettinen-Oinonen

Chapter 5. Xylanases: molecular properties and applications. F. I. Javier Pastor, Óscar Gallardo, Julia Sanz-Aparicio and Pilar Diaz

Chapter 6. Microbial xylanolytic carbohydrate esterases. Evangelos Topakas and Paul Christakopoulos

Chapter 7. Structural and biochemical properties of pectinases. Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi, N. Manoj and D. Sunil Kumar

Chapter 8. a-L-Rhamnosidases: old and new insights. Paloma Manzanares, Salvador Vallés, Daniel Ramón and Margarita Orejas

Chapter 9. Application of glycosidases and transglycosidases in the synthesis of oligosaccharides. Francisco J. Plou, Aránzazu Gómez de Segura and Antonio Ballesteros

Section B. Peptidases

Chapter 10. An introduction to peptidases and the MEROPS database. Neil D. Rawlings, Fraser R. Morton and Alan J. Barrett

Chapter 11. Cysteine proteases. Zbigniew Grzonka, Franciszek Kasprzykowski and Wieslaw Wiczk

Chapter 12. Subtilisin. John Donlon

Chapter 13. Aspartic proteases used in cheese making. Félix Claveríe-Martín and María C. Vega-Hernández

Chapter 14. Metalloproteases. Johanna Mansfeld

Chapter 15. Aminopeptidases. Yolanda Sanz

Section C. Lipases

Chapter 16. Lipases: molecular structure and function. Marina Lotti and Lilia Alberghina

Chapter 17. Use of lipases in the industrial production of esters. Soundar Divakar and Balaraman Manohar

Chapter 18. Use of lipases in organic synthesis. Vicente Gotor-Fernández and Vicente Gotor

Chapter 19. Use of lipases for the production of biodiesel. Andrea Salis, Maura Monduzzi and Vincenzo Solinas

Chapter 20. Use of lipases in the synthesis of structured lipids in supercritical carbon dioxide. José da Cruz Francisco, Simon P. Gough and Estera S. Dey

Section D. Nucleic Acids Enzymes

Chapter 21. Restriction and homing endonucleases. Krzysztof J. Skowronek and Janusz M. Bujnicki

Chapter 22. DNA polymerases for PCR applications. Regen Drouin, Walid Dridi and Oumar Samasekou

Chapter 23. Prokaryotic reverse transcriptases. Bert Lampson

Chapter 24. Dicer: structure, function and role in RNA-dependent gene-silencing pathways. Justin M. Pare and Tom C. Hobman

Section E. Oxidoreductases and Other Enzymes of Diverse Function

Chapter 25. Hydrogen peroxide producing and decomposing enzymes: their use in biosensors and other applications. Nóra Adányi, Teréz Barna, Tamás Emri, Márton Miskei and István Pócsi

Chapter 26. Laccases: biological functions, molecular structure and industrial applications. Miguel Alcalde

Chapter 27. High redox potential peroxidases. Angel Martinez

Chapter 28. Amino acid dehydrogenases. Stephen Y. K. Seah

Chapter 29. Phytase: source, structure and application. Xin Gen Lei, Jesus M. Porres, Edward J. Mullaney and Henrik Brinch-Pedersen

Chapter 30. Nitrile hydrolases. Praveen Kaul, Anirban Banerjee and Uttam Chand Banerjee

Chapter 31. Aspartases: molecular structure, biochemical function and biotechnological applications. Tomohiro Mizobata and Yasushi Kawata

Chapter 32. Transglutaminases. María J. Arrizubieta

Chapter 33. Penicillin acylases. David W. Spence and Martin Ramsden

Chapter 34. Hydantoinases. Yun-Peng Chao, Chung-Jen Chiang, Jong-Tzer Chern and Jason T. C. Tzen