Effect of High-Pressure Technologies on Enzymes
Science and Applications

Offers a detailed, practical overview of high-pressure and homogenization approaches and their effects enzyme biochemistry in research and industrial applications

Bruno Ricardo de Castro Leite Júnior (Edited by), Alline Artigiani Lima Tribst (Edited by)

9780323983860

Paperback / softback, published 16 February 2023

464 pages
27 x 18 x 2.9 cm, 0.97 kg

Effect of High-Pressure Technologies on Enzyme: Science and Applications provides a deep, practical discussion of high-pressure processing (HPP) and high-pressure homogenization (HPH) technologies and biochemical approaches, applied across research and industry, with applications  ranging from food to pharmaceuticals and commercial enzyme production. Early chapters discuss foundational aspects of HPP and HPH approaches; the science of enzyme modification; and basic aspects of enzyme activity, stability, and structure as studied in biochemical processes. Later chapters consider the effect of HPP and HPH technologies and their mechanisms of controlling enzyme modification to improve enzyme performance for chosen applications. Special attention is paid to the application of HPP and HPH technologies and enzyme modifications in food processing, microbial enzyme modification, drug discovery, and production of other commercial enzymes, as well as the challenges of undesirable enzyme inactivation. The final chapter discusses future directions of the field and technologies, and expanded applications.

1. Use of high-pressure technologies on enzymes 2. Effects of high pressure on protein stability, structure, and function—Theory and applications 3. Effect of high-pressure technologies on enzyme activity and stability 4. Effect of high-pressure processing on the kinetic parameters of enzymes 5. Strategies to improve enzyme performance: Effect of high pressure on the substrate and pressure-assisted reaction 6. High-pressure processing associated with other technologies to change enzyme activity 7. Effects of high-pressure processing on enzyme activity in milk and dairy products 8. Effects of high-pressure homogenization on enzyme activity in milk and dairy products 9. Effects of high-pressure processing on enzyme activity in meat, fish, and eggs 10. Effect of high-pressure homogenization on enzyme activity in juices 11. Effect of high-pressure processing on enzyme activity in roots, cereals, nuts, and their products 12. Applications of high-hydrostatic-pressure processing on microbial enzymes 13. Applications of high-pressure homogenization to microbial enzymes 14. Effect of high-pressure technologies on enzymes used in nonfood processing applications 15. Future challenges of using high-pressure technologies on enzymes

Subject Areas: Other manufacturing technologies [TDP], Biotechnology [TCB], Molecular biology [PSD], Enzymology [PSBZ], Life sciences: general issues [PSA]