Laccases food industry

As described previously for peroxidase, laccase can be applied to several processes related to the food industry because of its ability to eliminate undesirable phenolics. 

Bioremediation of food industry wastewater Bioremediation is a general concept that includes all those processes and actions that take place as an attempt to biotransform an environment, already altered by contaminants, to its original status. Laccase is a well-known enzyme in bioremediation because of its ability to degrade phenolic compounds (Morozova and others 2007). As mentioned for peroxidase, aromatic compounds, including phenols and aromatic amines, constitute one of the major classes of pollutants and are heavily regulated in many countries. This ability of laccases has been applied in different areas of both the food and textile industries, such as breweries and olive oil factories. 

Minussi RC, Pastore GM and Durany N. 2002. Potential applications of laccase in the food industry. Trends Food Sci Technol 13 205-216. 

Songulashvih, G., EhsashvUi, V, Wasser, S. R, Nevo, E., Hadar, Y. (2007). Basid-iomycetes laccase and manganese peroxidase activity in submerged fermentation of food industry wastes. Errzyme Microb. Technol., 41, 57-61. 

The biotechnological potential of laccases—working with air and producing water as sole by-product—has led to applications from the textile to the pulp and paper industries, from food applications to bioremediation, as well as their use in organic synthesis. 

In the field of bioremediation, oxidoreductases are considered to be excellent biocatalysts for environmentally friendly processes. Laccases and peroxidases are widely used to treat effluents from pulp/cotton mills, food/fruit processing plants and breweries [1, 2, 37]. Laccases, peroxidases and other oxygenases are also being studied for their abihty to degrade hazardous coal substances, especially the sulfur-containing components, and in the treatment of industrial waste and contaminated soil and water in the transformation of xenobiotics, polycycHc aromatic hydrocarbons and other pollutants (biodetoxification and biodecontamination)... 

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