Mangroves are costal ecosystems where extreme environmental conditions are found, being considered valuable source for the discovery of novel microbial enzymes. Lipases constitute the most important group of biocatalysts being used in various biotechnological applications. In this context, the current work aimed to screening bacterial isolates and metagenomic clones from mangrove sediments for lipase/esterase p...
The growing demand of modern society for ecofriendly cleaning products has stimulated the search of natural additives and biodegradable products. Since petroleum-derived surfactants added to commercial enzymes are the key components of the major cleaning products, the replacement of synthetic these surfactants by biosurfactants supplemented with microbial enzymes is an alternative for the new generation cleanin...
Esterases are lipolytic enzymes widely used in industrial applications. This work aimed the overexpression and purification of the esterase LipG7 identified from a metagenomic library constructed from mangrove sediments, which gene sequence shares 80% amino acid identity to 1,4-butanediol diacrylate esterase from the bacterium Porticoccus hydrocarbonoclasticus. LipG7 was expressed in three commercial Escherichi...