Agro-Industrial Food Waste as a Low-Cost Substrate for Sustainable Production of Industrial Enzymes: A Critical Review
The grave environmental, social, and economic concerns over the unprecedented exploitation of non-renewable energy resources have drawn the attention of policy makers and research organizations towards the sustainable use of agro-industrial food and crop wastes. Enzymes are versatile biocatalysts wi...
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| author | Vishal Sharma Mei-Ling Tsai Parushi Nargotra Chiu-Wen Chen Chia-Hung Kuo Pei-Pei Sun Cheng-Di Dong |
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| description | The grave environmental, social, and economic concerns over the unprecedented exploitation of non-renewable energy resources have drawn the attention of policy makers and research organizations towards the sustainable use of agro-industrial food and crop wastes. Enzymes are versatile biocatalysts with immense potential to transform the food industry and lignocellulosic biorefineries. Microbial enzymes offer cleaner and greener solutions to produce fine chemicals and compounds. The production of industrially important enzymes from abundantly present agro-industrial food waste offers economic solutions for the commercial production of value-added chemicals. The recent developments in biocatalytic systems are designed to either increase the catalytic capability of the commercial enzymes or create new enzymes with distinctive properties. The limitations of low catalytic efficiency and enzyme denaturation in ambient conditions can be mitigated by employing diverse and inexpensive immobilization carriers, such as agro-food based materials, biopolymers, and nanomaterials. Moreover, revolutionary protein engineering tools help in designing and constructing tailored enzymes with improved substrate specificity, catalytic activity, stability, and reaction product inhibition. This review discusses the recent developments in the production of essential industrial enzymes from agro-industrial food trash and the application of low-cost immobilization and enzyme engineering approaches for sustainable development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9b0419cbabe641f1a2829b3bc5a885cf2023-11-24T04:06:24ZengMDPI AGCatalysts2073-43442022-11-011211137310.3390/catal12111373Agro-Industrial Food Waste as a Low-Cost Substrate for Sustainable Production of Industrial Enzymes: A Critical ReviewVishal Sharma0Mei-Ling Tsai1Parushi Nargotra2Chiu-Wen Chen3Chia-Hung Kuo4Pei-Pei Sun5Cheng-Di Dong6Department of Marine Environmental Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 81157, TaiwanDepartment of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 81157, TaiwanDepartment of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 81157, TaiwanDepartment of Marine Environmental Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 81157, TaiwanDepartment of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 81157, TaiwanDepartment of Seafood Science, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 81157, TaiwanDepartment of Marine Environmental Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 81157, TaiwanThe grave environmental, social, and economic concerns over the unprecedented exploitation of non-renewable energy resources have drawn the attention of policy makers and research organizations towards the sustainable use of agro-industrial food and crop wastes. Enzymes are versatile biocatalysts with immense potential to transform the food industry and lignocellulosic biorefineries. Microbial enzymes offer cleaner and greener solutions to produce fine chemicals and compounds. The production of industrially important enzymes from abundantly present agro-industrial food waste offers economic solutions for the commercial production of value-added chemicals. The recent developments in biocatalytic systems are designed to either increase the catalytic capability of the commercial enzymes or create new enzymes with distinctive properties. The limitations of low catalytic efficiency and enzyme denaturation in ambient conditions can be mitigated by employing diverse and inexpensive immobilization carriers, such as agro-food based materials, biopolymers, and nanomaterials. Moreover, revolutionary protein engineering tools help in designing and constructing tailored enzymes with improved substrate specificity, catalytic activity, stability, and reaction product inhibition. This review discusses the recent developments in the production of essential industrial enzymes from agro-industrial food trash and the application of low-cost immobilization and enzyme engineering approaches for sustainable development.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/12/11/1373enzymesagro-industrial food wastebiocatalysisimmobilizationenzyme engineering |
| spellingShingle | Vishal Sharma Mei-Ling Tsai Parushi Nargotra Chiu-Wen Chen Chia-Hung Kuo Pei-Pei Sun Cheng-Di Dong Agro-Industrial Food Waste as a Low-Cost Substrate for Sustainable Production of Industrial Enzymes: A Critical Review Catalysts enzymes agro-industrial food waste biocatalysis immobilization enzyme engineering |
| title | Agro-Industrial Food Waste as a Low-Cost Substrate for Sustainable Production of Industrial Enzymes: A Critical Review |
| title_full | Agro-Industrial Food Waste as a Low-Cost Substrate for Sustainable Production of Industrial Enzymes: A Critical Review |
| title_fullStr | Agro-Industrial Food Waste as a Low-Cost Substrate for Sustainable Production of Industrial Enzymes: A Critical Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agro-Industrial Food Waste as a Low-Cost Substrate for Sustainable Production of Industrial Enzymes: A Critical Review |
| title_short | Agro-Industrial Food Waste as a Low-Cost Substrate for Sustainable Production of Industrial Enzymes: A Critical Review |
| title_sort | agro industrial food waste as a low cost substrate for sustainable production of industrial enzymes a critical review |
| topic | enzymes agro-industrial food waste biocatalysis immobilization enzyme engineering |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/12/11/1373 |
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