AUTHOR=Anteneh Yitayal Shiferaw , Franco Christopher Milton Mathew 

TITLE=Whole Cell Actinobacteria as Biocatalysts

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2019

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00077

DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2019.00077

ISSN=1664-302X

ABSTRACT=Actinobacteria are essential to the pharmaceutical industry because they produce a range of bioactive compounds that are essential for human health. Their ability to synthesize a variety of chemical structures is due to their biochemical versatility in that they contain a plethora of enzymes that catalyse both degradative and synthetic reactions. While many processes utilise single or multiple purified enzymes, there is a role for whole organisms in catalysing a series of reactions to achieve a processing goal. This chapter examines the role of whole actinobacteria in biocatalysis.