Author Description

Combines fundamental and applied aspects, including preparing novel enzyme systems isolated from nature and using enzymes in a wide variety of industrial processes. A major theme is enzyme technology, which has had a broad impact in biotechnology, synthetic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture. Some 120 papers include studies of biosensors for environmental monitoring, fighting nerve-agent chemical weapons with enzyme technology, the kinetics of inactivating enzymes by inert gas bubbling, applying thick-film technology in the mass production of biosensors, developing recombinant bacteria for degrading dibenzothiophene, sorbitol oxidase from microorganisms, improving the stability of soybean and horseradish peroxidases by covalent chemical modification, analyzing glycolysis-relevant compounds in saliva by microbiosensors, and designing and constructing a new nucleozyme. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR