title: Commercial proteases: present and future.
abstract: This review presents a brief overview of the general categories of commercially used proteases, and critically surveys the successful strategies currently being used to improve the properties of proteases for various commercial purposes. We describe the broad application of proteases in laundry detergents, food processing, and the leather industry. The review also introduces the expanding development of proteases as a class of therapeutic agents, as well as highlighting recent progress in the field of protease engineering. The potential commercial applications of proteases are rapidly growing as recent technological advances are producing proteases with novel properties and substrate specificities.
authors: Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
authors: Qing
authors: Q
authors: Li
authors: Li
authors: L
authors: Yi
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Marek
authors: Brent L
authors: BL
authors: Iverson
mesh_terms: D002617:Chemical Industry / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D019020:Directed Molecular Evolution / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D019649:Food Industry / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015202:Protein Engineering / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends
chemical_list: D010447:Peptide Hydrolases