Olaitan Owoyemi
Achievers University Owo, Nigeria
Title: The application of microbial enzymes in biotechnology
Biography
Biography: Olaitan Owoyemi
Abstract
Microbial enzymes are biocatalysts that play an important role in metabolic and biochemical reactions. They have been paid more attention due to their active and stable nature than enzymes from plants and animal sources. Microbial enzymes are of great importance in the development of various biotechnological and industrial bioprocesses. Current applications are focused on many different markets including pulp and paper, leather, detergents and textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemical, food and beverages, biofuels, animal feed and personal care, among others. Today there is a need for new, improved and more versatile enzymes in order to develop more novel, sustainable and economically competitive production processes. Microbial diversity and modern molecular techniques, such as metagenomics and genomics, are being used to discover new microbial enzymes whose catalytic properties can be improved and modified by different strategies based on rational, semi-rational and random directed evolution. Most industrial enzymes are recombinant forms produced in bacteria and fungi such as lipase, lactase, aminopeptidase, acid proteinases, cellulases, chitinases. glucose oxidases are enzymes naturally produced from bacteria and fungi microorganisms.