1st Edition

Pharmaceutical Biocatalysis Drugs, Genetic Diseases, and Epigenetics

Edited By Peter Grunwald Copyright 2021
444 Pages 18 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

444 Pages 18 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

Volume 7 of the Jenny Stanford Series on Biocatalysis deals with several different aspects of pharmaceuticals, which include not only various applications of drugs and their metabolism but also natural resources for active pharmaceutical ingredients as well as the removal of pharmaceutical pollution. In detail, novel approaches for developing microbial fermentation processes to produce vitamin B6... Read more

Fermentative Production of Vitamin B6

Jonathan Rosenberg, Björn Richts, and Fabian M. Commichau

Exploring Alternative Taxol Sources: Biocatalysis of 7-β-Xylosyl-10-Deacetyltaxol and Application for Taxol Production

Wan-Cang Liu et al.

Molecular Farming through Plant Engineering: A Cost Effective Approach to Produce Therapeutic and Prophylactic Proteins

Prakash Narayana Reddy, Krupanidhi Srirama, and Vijaya R. Dirisala

Microbial Biotransformations in the Production and Degradation of Fluorinated Pharmaceuticals

Cormac D. Murphy and Aoife Phelan

Successful Screening of Potent Microorganisms Producing L-Asparaginase

Archana Vimal and Awanish Kumar

Biotransformation of Xenobiotics in Living Systems

Maja Đanić and Momir Mikov

Degradation of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds by White-Rot Fungi and Their Ligninolytic Enzymes

Muhammad B. Asif and Faisal I. Hai

Removal of Pharmaceutical Pollutions from Municipal Sewage Mediated by Laccases

Thomas Hahn et al.

Mechanism of Drug Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and Future Drug Discovery

Ana Leticia Gori Lusa et al.

Genome Editing and Gene Therapies: Complex and Expensive Drugs

Peter Grunwald

Epigenetic and Metabolic Alterations in Cancer Cells: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches

Chi Chun Wong and Jun Yu

Biography

Peter Grunwald studied chemistry at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Hamburg, Germany. He graduated in the field of high-frequency spectroscopy and then became a staff member of the Institute of Physical Chemistry. After receiving his PhD in physical chemistry, he founded a biotechnology research group. He was appointed professor in 2001.