Biocatalysts for the Synthesis and Modification of Biopolymers
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Authors
Linhardt, Robert J.
Al-Hakim, A.
Issue Date
1991
Type
Book chapter
Language
ENG
Keywords
Biology , Chemistry and chemical biology , Chemical and biological engineering , Biomedical engineering
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Abstract
Biopolymers are polymers that are biosynthesized from monomeric building blocks. Although biopolymers have been used for many years by the food, pharmaceutical, and specialty chemical industries, they have recently taken on increasing industrial importance often for novel applications.1–4 The heightened interest in these materials has primarily been the result of new biotechnological methods5–7 which have given industry access to large quantities of highly-pure biopolymers of various structures representing both natural and nonnatural products.
Description
in Biocatalysts for Industry, Topics in Applied Chemistry, Plenum Publishing Company, New York, J.S. Dordick (Ed.), Chapter 5, pp. 83-112,
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Full Citation
Biocatalysts for the Synthesis and Modification of Biopolymers, R.J. Linhardt and A. Al-Hakim in Biocatalysts for Industry, Topics in Applied Chemistry, Plenum Publishing Company, New York, J.S. Dordick (Ed.), Chapter 5, pp. 83-112, 1991.