Proteases: Importance, Immobilization Protocols, Potential of Activated Carbon as Support, and the Importance of Modifying Supports for Immobilization

Mateus Pereira Flores Santos; Evaldo Cardozo de Souza Junior; Carolina Villadóniga; Diego Vallés; Susana Castro-Sowinski; Renata Cristina Ferreira Bonomo; Cristiane Martins Veloso

doi:10.3390/biotech13020013

Proteases: Importance, Immobilization Protocols, Potential of Activated Carbon as Support, and the Importance of Modifying Supports for Immobilization

BioTech (Basel). 2024 Apr 30;13(2):13. doi: 10.3390/biotech13020013.

Authors

Mateus Pereira Flores Santos¹, Evaldo Cardozo de Souza Junior², Carolina Villadóniga³, Diego Vallés³, Susana Castro-Sowinski³, Renata Cristina Ferreira Bonomo², Cristiane Martins Veloso²

Affiliations

¹ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia e Biotecnologia de Microrganismos (PPGBBM), Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC), Rodovia Jorge Amado, km 16, Ilhéus 45662-900, Bahia, Brazil.
² Laboratório de Engenharia de Processos, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), BR 415, km 04, s/n, Itapetinga 45700-000, Bahia, Brazil.
³ Laboratório de Biocatalisadores e suas Aplicações, Instituto de Química Biológica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade da República, Iguá 4225, Montevideo 11400, Uruguay.

Abstract

Although enzymes have been used for thousands of years, their application in industrial processes has gained importance since the 20th century due to technological and scientific advances in several areas, including biochemistry [...].

Keywords: carbonaceous support; derivatives; enzyme; functionalization; heterofunctional supports; immobilization methods.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This work was supported financially by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel—Brazil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001 and n. 88887.368355/2019–00 (PNPD). And research grant from UESB (PPGECAL).