Industrial applications of alkaliphiles and their enzymes - Past, present and future

Environmental Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 845-856

  Fujinami, Shun ^a   Fujisawa, Makoto ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND EVALUATION   (Japan)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

alkaline adaptation; alkaline enzymes; alkaliphiles; Bacillus; sodium cycle

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; CATALYSTS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRY; MICROORGANISMS; PH EFFECTS; SOAPS (DETERGENTS); SODIUM;

ADAPTATION MECHANISM; ALKALINE CELLULASE; ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT; ALKALINE ENZYMES; ALKALINE LIPASE; ALKALINE PH; ALKALINE PROTEASE; BACILLUS HALODURANS; BACILLUS SPECIES; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; CLEANING EFFICIENCY; DEGRADING ENZYMES; ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION; ENZYMATIC FUNCTIONS; EXTRACELLULAR; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES; GENOMIC SEQUENCE; INDUSTRIAL ENZYMES; NEW APPLICATIONS; PH RANGE; SODIUM CYCLE; STRUCTURAL BASIS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCES;

LIPASES;

ALKALINE PROTEINASE; AMYLASE; CELLULASE; DETERGENT; INDUSTRIAL ENZYME; MICROBIAL ENZYME; PROTEINASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTREMOPHILE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; OXIDANT; PH; SODIUM;

ALKALINITY; ALKALIPHILE; BACILLUS; CATALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PH; REVIEW; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACILLUS HALODURANS C-125;

EID: 77953715921     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593331003762807     Document Type: Review

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