Technische Biochemie: The Biochemistry and Industrial Use of Natural Products

Product description From the Back Cover This biochemistry textbook has been revised and expanded for its second edition. It provides biotechnologists and bioprocess engineers with valuable insights into Technical Biochemistry, showing how technology and biology can complement each other.The authors aim to present a textbook for bioengineering students, linking biological concepts with technical and engineering challenges. It focuses on biochemical principles in natural product biosynthesis and their biotechnological and bioprocess engineering pathways.Content:Application of biochemistry in medicine, pharmacy, and engineeringPhotosynthesis – The chemistry of lightCarbohydrate metabolism – Sugars as energy carriersAmino acids and peptides – Proteins as biocatalystsCarbohydrates, lipids, and proteins – Building blocks for technical and pharmaceutical substancesBiosyntheses of primary and secondary metabolismNatural product biosynthesis – Secondary metabolitesTarget Audience:Students of bioprocess engineering, biotechnology, pharmacy, and chemistryBiologists, biotechnologists, process engineers, pharmacists, and chemists with a focus on biotechnologyThe Authors:Oliver Kayser, professor of Technical Biochemistry at the Technical University of Dortmund, specializes in the biosynthesis of cannabinoids in yeast.Nils Averesch, a bioengineering PhD with a focus on metabolic engineering, leads a research group at Stanford University exploring bioproduction of biomaterials using greenhouse gases.The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. About the Author Oliver Kayser studied pharmacy and earned his doctorate in Pharmaceutical Biology. Since 2010, he has held the chair of Technical Biochemistry at the Technical University of Dortmund, where he focuses on the heterologous biosynthesis of cannabinoids in yeast.Nils Averesch studied biochemical engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund and earned his PhD with a focus on metabolic engineering from the University of Queensland. After working at NASA Ames Research Center he joined Stanford University and built a research group before becoming faculty at the University of Florida. The Averesch Lab researches the discovery and production of advanced biomaterials using microbial cell factories that utilize waste streams such as greenhouse gases as feedstocks.