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The introduction of biotechnology in every aspect of natural products research, has dramatically facilitated the potential applications by the industry today. Natural dyes, alternative food ingredients and preservation materials and microbial polysaccharides, are only some examples of the growing use of natural products in the industry. Importantly, the pharmaceutical sector is actively involved in natural products research, since a large number of novel ...
Amino acids are the molecular units that make up proteins. All proteins are various compositions of twenty specific naturally occurring amino acids. Amino acids are found in all food except oil. There are about eighty amino acids found in nature, but only twenty to twenty-nine are required for human growth. Amino acids play a pivotal role in living systems, and therefore synthetic amino acids have been of significant interest to researchers working towards the ...
Nature has continuously provided mankind with a broad and structurally diverse of pharmacologically active compounds that have proved to be indispensable for the cure of deadly diseases or as lead structures for novel pharmaceuticals. The importance of natural bioproducts can be realized from their prominence in the over-the-counter and prescription drug market. The pharmaceutical industry continues to examine their potential as sources of novel medicinal ...
Bioacatalysis has increasingly become the technology of choice to introduce chirality in fine-chemical processes. Biocatalysis sculpts chemical precursors into the precise molecular shapes that are the heart of many pharmaceuticals. In reviewing how biocatalysis can be applied to improve chiral synthesis for pharmaceutical it becomes clear that there will be many opportunities using a simple enzyme system but that many of the more useful applications will require ...