Enzyme and microbial systems involved in starch processing

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Enzyme and Microbial Technology

Volume 17, Issue 9, September 1995, Pages 770-778

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Abstract

This article reviews, in brief, the important industrial uses of starch and starch processing in industry. The other aspects discussed include the main enzymes involved in starch degradation, commercially available amylolytic enzymes, thermostable enzymes from mesophilic and thermophilic microorganisms, microbial fermentation systems used in amylolytic enzyme biosynthesis, amylolytic yeasts in ethanol production from starch, and amylolytic ruminal organisms.

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PaperEnzyme and microbial systems involved in starch processing

Abstract

Arch. Biochem. Biophys.

Adv. Microb. Technol.

Syst. Appl. Microbiol.

Biochem. Biophys. Acta

Enzyme Microb. Technol.

Trends Biotechnol.

Enzyme Microb. Technol.

J. Biol. Chem.

J. Biol. Chem.

Industrial alcohol

Alcohol production and recovery

Adv. Biochem. Eng.

Ethanol in Brazil; brief summary of the state of the industry in 1977

Biotechnol. Bioeng.

Raw material evaluation and process development studies for conversion of biomass to sugars and ethanol

Biotechnol. Bioeng.

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Biotechnol. Bioeng.

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Agric. Biol. Chem.

Ethanol

Starch conversion process

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Appl. Microbiol.

Modern brewing biotechnology

Production and application of lactic acid

Ind. Eng. Chem.

Lactic acid

Lactobacillus amylophillus, a new starch hydrolysing sp. from swine-waste corn fermentation

Dev. Ind. Microbiol.

Method of production and recovery of protein from food wastes

The mass culture and cell cultivation of photosynthetic bacteria

Upstream processing

Upstream processing

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Upstream processing

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Starch degrading enzymes of microbial origin

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The application of polysaccharide degrading enzymes in starch industry

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J. Bacteriol.

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Agric. Biol. Chem.

Bacillus stearothermophillus KP 1064 pullulan hydrolase: its assignment to a unique type of maltogenic α-amylase but neither pullulanase nor isopullulanase

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Enzyme and microbial systems involved in starch processing