Characteristics of Biocatalytic Transformations

The limits between the areas are blurred biotransformations and enzyme catalyses with cmde extracts or pure enzymes are often summarized under the term biocatalysis . Biocatalytic processes are taken to mean transformations of a defined substrate to a defined target product with one or several enzyme-catalyzed steps. 

Biotechnology and biocatalysis not only differ from conventional processes by featuring a different type of catalyst but they constitute a new technology base  

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