Carrier-bound Immobilized Enzymes
Subtitle: Principles, Application and Design
Contributors: Rolf D. Schmid (Foreword)
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: February 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9783527312320
Subjects: Enzymology; Science/Mathematics; Immobilized enzymes; Science; trends; Science / Biochemistry; Enzymes, Immobilized; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; Biotechnology
First sentence: Since the second half of the last century, numerous efforts have been devoted to the development of insoluble immobilized enzymes for a variety of applications [2]; these applications can clearly benefit from use of the immobilized enzymes rather than the soluble counterparts, for instance as reusable heterogeneous biocatalysts, with the aim of reducing production costs by efficient recycling and control of the process [3, 4], as stable and reusable devices for analytical and medical applications [5-11], as selective adsorbents for purification of proteins and enzymes [12], as fundamental tools for solid-phase protein chemistry [13, 14] and as effective microdevices for controlled release of protein drugs [15] (Scheme 1.1).