1st Edition

Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZymes) Biotechnological Applications for Mitigation of Climate Change

Edited By Anil Kumar Verma Copyright 2026
320 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

320 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZymes) in addressing the climate crisis where the biotechnological advances in utilizing this diverse enzyme group for climate change mitigation have been examined. An overview of the CAZymes from their sources, structure, diversity, biological significance, and potential for alleviating climate change have been... Read more

0. Front Matter. 1. Climate Change and Global Warming: Evidence, Causes and Significance Of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes for Its Alleviation. 2.  Analyzing the Structural Diversity of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes and Their Functional Role in Various Domains of Life. 3. Nano-CAZymes synergy: A novel prospect. 4. Exploring the various novel sources of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes). 5. Integrating Carbohydrate Active Enzymes in Biorefineries: Pioneering Sustainable Development through Circular Economy. 6. Emerging Roles of Carbohydrate-Active Nanoenzymes in Biomedical Applications. 7. Bioprospection and engineering of lignin and chitin degrading enzymes for industrial applications. 8. Scaling up the Production of Carbohydrate-active Enzymes for Biotechnological Application. 9. Structure, Classes, Databases, and Bioinformatics Tools Associated with Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes. 10. Carbohydrate Active Enzymes Inhibitors: Mechanisms and Mitigation. 11. Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes: Role In Food And Agriculture.

Biography

Anil Kumar Verma is the principal editor of the proposed book with expertise in the field of sustainable energy and biorefineries-based application of carbohydrate-active enzymes from lignocellulosic waste. He completed his PhD in May 2015 from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Assam. The PhD thesis work focused on the carbohydrate-active enzyme glucuronoxylan xylanohydrolase from Clostridium thermocellum. After completing his PhD, he received a prestigious DST-SERB National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) grant and joined The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI, New Delhi). He worked as Principal Investigator (PI) on a project, “Molecular cloning, biochemical characterization and structural and functional investigation of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes.” During the N-PDF fellowship, he was selected as an assistant professor at Central University Sikkim, where he teaches industrial microbiology and instrumentation as a course subject. He has supervised 20 MSc dissertations and 3 PhDs (microbiology) are in progress. He has published around 51 publications with a cumulative impact factor of more than 60 in peer-reviewed journals and 435 citations with an h-index of 11.