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Cold-Adapted Enzymes: Biochemistry and Biotechnology provides a detailed investigation into enzymes that adapt to cold environments. It covers the catalytic, structural and regulatory properties of this type of enzyme and the potential advances in their biotechnological applications.Topics covered include the evolution of enzymes in cold environments, enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism (such as xylanases, B-galactosidase, and B-glucosidase), cold-adapted enzymes in lipid metabolism (such as esterases and lipases) and redox enzymes. The book also explores bacterial cold-adapted enzymes and those from organisms which live in extreme environments like Antarctica. Recombinant expression methods, protein engineering and computational approaches are also featured. This book offers a complete overview of cold-adapted enzymes and is the latest volume in the Foundations and Frontiers of Enzymology series. This is a useful reference for researchers across a range of interdisciplinary fields including biochemistry, enzymology, biotechnology, molecular evolution, structural biology and microbiology.

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Author:   Diego Gomez-Casati (Senior academic and research scientist, Centre for Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies. Santa Fe, Argentina)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
ISBN:  

9780443223662

ISBN 10:   0443223661
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   01 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. Structural and functional properties of cold-adapted enzymes. 2. Structural features of cold-adapted enzymes 3. Stability of proteins in cold environments 4. Molecular mechanisms of cold-adapted enzymes 5. Enzyme evolution in cold environments 6. Diversity of cold-adapted enzymes 7. Molecular adaptations of psychrophilic enzymes 8. Bacterial cold-adapted enzymes 9. Cold-adapted enzymes from Marine bacterium 10. Cold-adapted enzymes in carbohydrate metabolism 11. Cold-adapted proteases 12. Cold-adapted metalloproteases 13. Cold-adapted enzymes in lipid metabolism 14. Cold-adapted amylases 15. Cold-adapted redox enzymes 16. Cold-adapted dehydrogenases 17. Cold-adapted enzymes from Antarctic organisms 18. Biotechnological applications of cold-adapted enzymes 19. Recombinant expression of cold-adapted enzymes 20. Protein engineering of cold-adapted enzymes 21. Computational approaches to study the cold adaptation of enzymes 22. Computational engineering of cold-adapted enzymes 23. Biodiversity of physcrophilic bacteria 24. New cold-adapted enzymes and their applications

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Dr. Diego Gomez-Casati is a senior academic and research scientist at the Centre for Photosynthetic and Biochemical Studies and Professor of Chemical Biology at the National University of Rosario, Argentina. He is PI of the Plant and Algae Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory and Vice-Director. Dr. Gomez Casati has a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires. He was a visiting scientist at California State University, Fullerton, USA, Laboratoire Microbiologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire et Pathogenicite, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Bordeaux-2 and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He was also Professor of Plant Biotechnology at the National University of San Martín (UNSAM). Dr. Gomez-Casati’s research interests include the study of the structure, function and regulation of polysaccharide metabolism enzymes and their biotechnological applications. He has published over 85 research papers, reviews and book chapters, most related to the biochemical characterization of enzymes of energy metabolism.

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