Introduction to Enzyme Technology

Chapter 1. Introduction to enzyme technology.- Chapter 2. Enzyme structure and function.- Chapter 3. Enzyme modelling: from the sequence to the substrate complex.- Chapter 4. Enzyme kinetics.- Chapter 5. Enzyme reactors and process control.- Chapter 6. Enzyme identification and screening: activity-based methods.- Chapter 7. Bioinformatic methods for enzyme identification.- Chapter 8. Optimization of enzymes.- Chapter 9. Enzyme production.- Chapter 10. Enzyme purification.- Chapter 11. Enzyme immobilization.- Chapter 12. Enzymatic reactions in unusual reaction media.- Chapter 13. Principles of applied biocatalysis.- Chapter 14. Enzymes in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.- Chapter 15. Enzymes for the degradation of biomass.- Chapter 16. Enzymes in food production.- Chapter 17. Enzymes in detergents and cleaning agents.- Chapter 18. Enzymes and biosensor technology.- Chapter 19. Therapeutic enzymes.- Chapter 20. Enzymes in molecular biotechnology.

University Bochum, Germany. From 1988-1989, he worked as a postdoc with Prof. Dr. Robert E.W. Hancock at the Department of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. In 2002, he declined a call as Head of the Institute of Microbiology at University of Stuttgart, Germany and accepted the position of a full professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and director of the Institute of Molecular Enzyme Technology at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. In 2013, he was additionally appointed as director at the Institute of Bio- und Geosciences IBG-1: Biotechnology of the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH which belongs to the German Helmholtz Association. Karl-Erich Jaeger is co-founder of the biotech company evocatal GmbH (now evoxx technologies) and served as chairman of the supervisory board from 2007 to 2017. He has published more than 250 peer reviewed research papers and 17 patent applications; is an editorial board member of several scientific journals and serves as vice-president of the Cluster of Industrial Biotechnology - CLIB. His research interests are focused on bacterial enzymes and fluorescent proteins, their identification, biochemical and structural characterization and biotechnological applications.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Liese studied chemistry and carried out his doctoral research at the Research Center Jülich, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn in 1998. From 1998 to 2003, Liese was assistant professor at the University of Bonn and at the same time head of the Enzyme Group at the Institute of Biotechnology II (Prof. Dr. C. Wandrey) within the Research Center Jülich. After a sabbatical in 2000 at Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, USA, he worked as an associate professor at the University of Münster from 2003 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed as full professor for Technical Biocatalysis 2004 at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany, as the director of the