Dehydrogenases, potential industrial applications

The potential applications of oxidoreductases in industry are numerous. Alcohol dehydrogenases are useful in stereospecific synthesis and production of high-cost compounds such as cyclic ethers (see below), and have also been used in the production of flavour aldehydes e.g. geraniol [94]. With mesophilic enzymes, however, limitations due to narrow specificity, instability to heat and organic solvents and loss of activity on immobilization have been incurred. The use of these enzymes from thermophilic sources in inunobilized and continuous reactor systems (including biosensors) has also been proposed for the regeneration of... 

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