Progress in biocatalysis with immobilized viable whole cells: systems development, reaction engineering and applications

Autor: Vilém Neděla, Peter Gemeiner, Marion B. Ansorge-Schumacher, Milan Polakovič, Juraj Svitel, Jaroslav Filip, Marek Bučko
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Biotechnology Letters. 39:667-683
ISSN: 1573-6776
0141-5492
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-017-2300-y
Popis: Viable microbial cells are important biocatalysts in the production of fine chemicals and biofuels, in environmental applications and also in emerging applications such as biosensors or medicine. Their increasing significance is driven mainly by the intensive development of high performance recombinant strains supplying multienzyme cascade reaction pathways, and by advances in preservation of the native state and stability of whole-cell biocatalysts throughout their application. In many cases, the stability and performance of whole-cell biocatalysts can be highly improved by controlled immobilization techniques. This review summarizes the current progress in the development of immobilized whole-cell biocatalysts, the immobilization methods as well as in the bioreaction engineering aspects and economical aspects of their biocatalytic applications.
Databáze: OpenAIRE