title: Enzymatic Processes in Marine Biotechnology.
abstract: In previous review articles the attention of the biocatalytically oriented scientific community towards the marine environment as a source of biocatalysts focused on the habitat-related properties of marine enzymes. Updates have already appeared in the literature, including marine examples of oxidoreductases, hydrolases, transferases, isomerases, ligases, and lyases ready for food and pharmaceutical applications. Here a new approach for searching the literature and presenting a more refined analysis is adopted with respect to previous surveys, centering the attention on the enzymatic process rather than on a single novel activity. Fields of applications are easily individuated: (i) the biorefinery value-chain, where the provision of biomass is one of the most important aspects, with aquaculture as the prominent sector; (ii) the food industry, where the interest in the marine domain is similarly developed to deal with the enzymatic procedures adopted in food manipulation; (iii) the selective and easy extraction/modification of structurally complex marine molecules, where enzymatic treatments are a recognized tool to improve efficiency and selectivity; and (iv) marine biomarkers and derived applications (bioremediation) in pollution monitoring are also included in that these studies could be of high significance for the appreciation of marine bioprocesses.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Campi Flegrei, 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy. antonio.trincone@icb.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trincone
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D004798:Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D008386:Marine Biology / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes
keywords: biocatalysts; bioprocesses; biorefinery; marine biomarkers; marine enzymes; seafood