Lipid Modification By Enzymes And Engineered Microbes

This book is about how enzymes can be used to modify oils, and how microorganisms, such as yeast, can be engineered to do this. The book covers the state-of-the-art in this area, and includes chapters on the tools that have been developed, as well as chapters on metabolic engineering of microbes, the discovery of novel enzyme activities, and reaction engineering/process development.

Lipid Modification by Enzymes and Engineered Microbes covers the state-of-the art use of enzymes as natural biocatalysts to modify oils, also presenting how microorganisms, such as yeast, can be designed. In the past ten years, the field has made enormous progress, not only with respect to the tools developed for the development of designer enzymes, but also in the metabolic engineering of microbes, the discovery of novel enzyme activities, and in reaction engineering/process development. For the first time, these advances are covered in a single-volume that is edited by leading enzymatic scientist Uwe Borchscheuer and authored by an international team of experts.