ISSN:
1573-0972
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
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Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Abstract Biotransformations have gained extensive importance in practical use as a support for chemical synthesis or in the conversion of natural products. Biotransformations may present an enlargement, a sequential degradation or a specific modification of synthetic or natural compounds. The tools for biotransformations are principally mammalian, plant or microbial cells and their cell-free enzymes. In technical practice the biocatalysts are so far limited to the use of microorganisms and some cell-free enzymes of low cost. Although numerous microbial or enzymatical reactions were already developed for industrial processes, the capacities of biotransformations offer a broad field of inexhaustible possibilities for the future.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02421497
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