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Enzymes in Human and Animal Nutrition. Principles and Perspectives

  • Book

  • March 2018
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 4080945

Enzymes in Human and Animal Nutrition is a detailed reference on enzymes covering detailed information on all relevant aspects fundamental for final use of enzymes in human and animal nutrition. Topics explored include selection, engineering and expression of microbial enzymes, effects of probiotics on enzymes in the digestive tract, potential new sources of enzymes, valorization of plant biomass by food and feed enzymes. Economics and intellectual property issues are also examined.

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Table of Contents

1. Selection, engineering and expression of microbial enzymes Patrícia Poeta, A A Dias, Gilberto Igrejas, Vanessa Silva, Rui Bezerra, Carlos Simões Nunes 2. Intellectual Property on selection, expression and production of enzymes Carlos Simões Nunes

Phytases 3. General Aspects of Phytases Vikas Kumar and Amit Kumar Sinha 4. Phytase in Animal Feed Nicholas Romano, Vikas Kumar 5. Perspectives of phytases in nutrition, biocatalysis and soil stabilization Michele Rigon Spier, Maitê Rodrigues, Luana Paludo, Myriam Lorena Melgarejo Navarro Cerutti

Depolymerizating Enzymes 6. Depolymerizating enzymes cellulases Carlos Simoes Nunes 7. Laccases properties and applications Carlos Simões Nunes, Adinarayana Kunamneni 8. Amylases Shivendra Kumar, Srijit Chakravarty

NSP Enzymes 9. Non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) enzymes General Aspects Habte-Michael Habte-Tsion, Vikas Kumar 10. Depolymerizating Enzymes in Human Food: Bakery, Dairy Products and Drinks Parisa Fallahi, Habte-Michael Habte-Tsion, Waldemar Rossi Jr 11. Perspectives of non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) enzymes in nutrition Habte-Michael Habte-Tsion, Vikas Kumar, Waldemar Rossi Jr

Proteases 12. Proteases: General Aspects Petra Philipps-Wiemann 13. Proteases Human Food Petra Philipps-Wiemann 14. Proteases Animal Feed Petra Philipps-Wiemann

Other Enzymes 15. Enzymes as Therapeutic Agents Adinarayana Kunamneni, Christian Ogaugwu, Diwakar Goli 16. Enzymes as direct decontaminating agents mycotoxins Manjunath Manubolu, Lavanya Goodla, Kavitha Pathakoti, Kjell Malmlöf 17. Enzymatic decontamination of antimicrobials, phenols, heavy metals, pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dyes and animal waste Carlos Simões Nunes, Kjell Malmlöf 18. Chitinases Carlos Simões Nunes, Petra Philipps-Wiemann

Enzymes and new or alternative food- and feedstuffs 19. Alternative and new sources of feedstuffs Nicholas Romano 20. Tyrosinases Physiology, Pathophysiology and Applications Carlos Simoes Nunes, Kurt Vogel  21. Probiotics and enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract Carlos Simoes Nunes 22. Formulation of enzymes Carlos Simoes Nunes, Petra Philipps-Wiemann  23. Analytic of enzymes Kurt Vogel 24. Registration of food and feed additives (enzymes) in USA, Canada and China Carlos Simoes Nunes, Adinarayana Kunamneni, Vikas Kumar, Habte-Michael Habte-Tsion 25. Registration of food and feed additives enzymes in the European Union Guido Rychen, Hervé Toussaint 26. Economics of food and feed enzymes: status and perspectives David A. Guerrand 27. General perspectives of enzymes, environment preservation and scarce natural resources conclusions Carlos Simoes Nunes

Authors

Carlos Simões Nunes CSN Consulting, Versailles, France. Dr. Carlos Simões Nunes is a researcher with appointments at Estação Zootécnica Nacional in Fonte Boa, Portugal, and at INRA in France. He heads the Veterinary Department of Luena, Angola and manages cattle farms, slaughter houses and a fish farm in Angola. He has worked extensively in industry as Group leaders at Hoffmann-la-Roche and DSM and is Invited Professor at Nancy University in France. Vikas Kumar Division of Aquaculture, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY, USA. Dr. Vikas Kumar, assistant professor of fish nutrition and nutrigenomics at the University of Idaho (UofI).He has more than a decade of research in aquaculture and nutritional biochemistry, Fish Nutrition, Nutritional physiology, gut health, and Feed processing, formulation, and nutrigenomics. approach to enhance the aquaculture production. In the last 5 year, he has secured more than US$4 million projects for research from federal, state, and industrial funding agencies. He has collaborated research in several countries including Australia, Germany, China, India, Norway, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Malaysia, South Korea, Egypt, Nepal, Kenya, Brazil and Mexico. He currently serves as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports by the Nature Publishing Group, and as leading associate editor for the Animal Feed Science and Technology (Elsevier Publisher) and Journal of the World Aquaculture Society (Wiley Publisher). He has authored more than 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 18 book chapters and 30 magazine articles.