Bioprospecting of Enzymes in Industry, Healthcare and Sustainable Environment

1. Front Matter

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2. Application of Enzymes in Bioremediation of Contaminated Hydrosphere and Soil Environment

   • Sanchita Gupta, Lalit Dangi, Jayanta Kumar Patra, Radha Rani

   Pages 1-28

3. Bioremediation of Highly Toxic Hexavalent Chromium by Bacterial Chromate Reductases Family: A Structural and Functional Overview

   • Hrudayanath Thatoi, Manish Paul

   Pages 29-47

4. An Overview of Raw Starch Digesting Enzymes and Their Applications in Biofuel Development

   • Jetendra Kumar Roy, Nanthakumar Arumugam, Bibhuti Ranjan, Adarsh Kumar Puri, Ashis Kumar Mukherjee, Suren Singh et al.

   Pages 49-85

5. Bamboo Valorization by Fermentation and Enzyme Treatment

   • Divyajyoti Biswal, Saurabh Shinkhede, Sachin A. Mandavgane

   Pages 87-101

6. Recent Developments in Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis for Cellulosic Bioethanol Production

   • Puneet Kumar Singh, Snehasish Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Ojha, Kalyani Naik

   Pages 103-121

7. Production of Biofuel from Disposed Food and Dairy Waste

   • Monika Choudhary, Sunanda Joshi, Vartika, Lavisha Rao, Nidhi Srivastava

   Pages 123-138

8. Role of Enzymes in Synthesis of Nanoparticles

   • Swaroop Sanket, Swagat Kumar Das

   Pages 139-153

9. Protein–Nanoparticle Interaction and Its Potential Biological Implications

   • Manoranjan Arakha, Sandip Kumar Rath, Arun Kumar Pradhan, Bairagi C. Mallick, Suman Jha

   Pages 155-173

10. Enzyme-Nanoparticle Corona: A Novel Approach, Their Plausible Applications and Challenges

    • Mainsh Paul, Niteesh Pandey, Gireesh Shroti, Preeti Tomar, Hrudayanath Thatoi, Debalina Bhattacharya et al.

    Pages 175-199

11. Enzymes in Fuel Biotechnology

    • Bahaa T. Shawky, Neveen B. Talaat, Sonali Mohapatra

    Pages 201-217

12. Role of Enzymes in Deconstruction of Waste Biomass for Sustainable Generation of Value-Added Products

    • Nisha Bhardwaj, Komal Agrawal, Bikash Kumar, Pradeep Verma

    Pages 219-250

13. Thermostable Enzymes from Clostridium thermocellum

    • Abhijeet Thakur, Kedar Sharma, Ruchi Mutreja, Arun Goyal

    Pages 251-267

14. Hot and Cold Bacteria of Sikkim: Biodiversity and Enzymology

    • Sayak Das, Mingma Thundu Sherpa, Ishfaq Nabi Najar, Nagendra Thakur

    Pages 269-289

15. Enzymes in Health Care: Cost-Effective Production and Applications of Therapeutic Enzymes in Health Care Sector

    • Pritha Biswas, Gargi Mukherjee, Jagriti Singh, Akanksha Rastogi, Rintu Banerjee

    Pages 291-314

16. Significance of Enzymes in Modern Healthcare: From Diagnosis to Therapy

    • Pragyan Mishra, Shibangini Beura, Rahul Modak

    Pages 315-347

17. l-Asparaginase and Methioninase as Prospective Anticancer Enzymes: Current Applications and Production Approaches

    • Smruti Malinee Sahoo, Sabuj Sahoo

    Pages 349-362

18. Production of Thrombolytic and Fibrinolytic Proteases: Current Advances and Future Prospective

    • Susmita Ghosh, Saheli Saha, Sabuj Sahoo

    Pages 363-381

19. Enzymes in Textile Industries

    • Vartika Verma, Sunanda Joshi, Monika Choudhary, Nidhi Srivastava

    Pages 383-394

20. Role of Enzymes in Textile Processing

    • Ashwini Kumar Dash, Sanat Kumar Sahoo

    Pages 395-410

The rapid urbanization and industrialization of developing countries across the globe have necessitated for substantial resource utilization and development in the areas of Healthcare, Environment, and Renewable energy. In this context ,this resourceful book serves as a definitive source of information for the recent developments in application of microbial enzymes in various sectors. It covers applications in fermentation processes and their products, extraction and utilisation of enzymes from various sources and their application in health and biomass conversion for production of value added products. Different chapters discuss various areas of bioprospecting in enzyme technology, and describe why these are the mainstays for industrial production of value added products. The rich compilation of the cutting-edge advances and applications of the modern industrial based techniques hold feasible solutions for a range of current issues in enzyme technology.


This book will be of particular interest for scientists, academicians, technical resource persons, engineers and members of industry. Undergraduate and graduate students pursuing courses in the area of industrial biotechnology will find the information in the book valuable. General readers having interest towards biofuels, enzyme technology, fermented food and value added products, phytochemicals and phytopharmaceutical products will also find the book appealing. Readers will discover modern concepts of enzymatic bioprocess technology for production of therapeutics and industrial value added products.

• Enzymes
• Applied microbiology
• bacterial enzymes
• Fermentation
• bioremediation
• bioprospecting

• Department of Biotechnology, North Orissa University, Baripada, India

  Hrudayanath Thatoi

• Department of Biotechnology, College of Engineering and Technology, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India

  Sonali Mohapatra, Swagat Kumar Das

Hrudayanath Thatoi is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, North Orissa University, Odisha, India. He has around 15 years of teaching and 25 years of research experience. His research interests are microbial biotechnology, biofuel production, bioremediation, biodiversity conservation, mangrove biology, medicinal plants and bioactivity studies, ethnopharmacology etc. Prof. Thatoi obtained his M. Phil and Ph.D. from Utkal University, Odisha, India and his research work was based on N2 fixation in legume plants under dual inoculation of Rhizobium and VAM fungi and contributed significantly towards development of technology for mine waste reclamation in iron and chromite mine soils. Prof. Thatoi has handled many research projects of state Government and Central Government organizations like University Grant Commission-Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Odisha, Department of Forest, Govt. of Odisha etc. Prof. Thatoi has published more than 200 research papers in various national and International reputed journals and around 30 book chapters. Prof. Thatoi has also authored around 15 books by different notable publishers. So far 14 students have already obtained Ph.D. under his guidance. Prof. Thatoi has contributed immensely to the field of microbiology and biotechnology throughout his research and teaching career.


Sonali Mohapatra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, an autonomous college of Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, India. She has completed her B.Tech and M.Tech in the field of Industrial Biotechnology with distinction from Dr. MGR University, Chennai, India and is in the verge of submission of Ph.D thesis to Biju Patnaik University and Technology, Odisha. She has around seven years of research and teaching experience. She is a Fellow recipient of Eurasian Academy of Environmental Sciences (FEAES) and Society of Innovative Educationalist & Scientific Research Professional (FSIESRP).Her area of research focuses on fermentation technologies and waste management strategies. Her specific area of research includes conversion of lignocellulosic biomasses into bioenergy using various fermentation techniques. She has guided 06 M.Tech student and 20 B. Tech students for their dissertation work in the field of Microbial Fermentation and Environmental Technology. She has received various national and international awards for excellence in research and teaching. She has published 16 research articles in reputed international journals along with 8 book chapters. She has also filled an Indian patent in the field industrial waste utilisation for value added products. She has also co-authored a book entitled “Microbial Fermentation and Enzyme Technology” published by CRC Press.


Swagat Kumar Das is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, an autonomous college of Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, India. He obtained his B. Pharm degree from BPUT, Rourkela; M.Tech Biotechnology degree from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal and Ph.D. degree from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India. He is a Fellow recipient of Eurasian Academy of Environmental Sciences (FEAES) and Society of Innovative Educationalist & Scientific Research Professional (FSIESRP). He has more than 10 years of research and teaching experience. His research interest includes phytochemical screening and bioactivity studies leading to possible drug development from mangrove plants for treatment of diabetes and Oxidative stress. His post PhD research area also focused on green synthesis of nanoparticles and evaluation of their pharmacological potentials. He has guided 07 M.Tech and 25 B.Tech students for their dissertation work. He has published more than 20 research papers in various National and International journals and 7 book chapters. He has co-authored three books on Practical Biotechnology (I.K. International Publications), Practical Pharmacological Biotechnology (Springer) and Practical Environmental Biotechnology (Springer).

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