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Review
. 2015 Mar;72(5):923-40.
doi: 10.1007/s00018-014-1823-9. Epub 2015 Jan 11.

How to enjoy laccases

Cinzia Pezzella  1 , Lucia Guarino, Alessandra Piscitelli
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Review

How to enjoy laccases

Cinzia Pezzella et al. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

An analysis of the scientific literature published in the last 10 years reveals a constant growth of laccase applicative research in several industrial fields followed by the publication of a great number of patents. The Green Chemistry journal devoted the cover of its September 2014 issue to a laccase as greener alternative for chemical oxidation. This indicates that laccase "never-ending story" has found a new promising trend within the constant search for efficient (bio)catalysts able to meet the 12 green chemistry principles. A survey of ancient and cutting-edge uses of laccase in different industrial sectors is offered in this review with the aim both to underline their potential and to provide inspiration for new ones. Applications in textile and food fields have been deeply described, as well as examples concerning polymer synthesis and laccase-catalysed grafting. Recent applications in pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry have also been reviewed.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Laccase-catalyzed oxidation of small organics gives rise to the corresponding radicals that can evolve towards either synthetic or degradative processes, depending on functions performed in vivo by laccases. Adapted from Jeon and coworkers [3, 4] with author permission
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Data are from Chemical Abstracts Service/SciFinder Scholar based on the combined CAS and Medline databases with duplicated removed. Source articles include journal articles and are referred to the decade 2003–2013. Categories used for classification of journal articles are based on the following CAS section title: Waste treatment and disposal; water, cellulose, lignin, paper, and other wood products; electrochemical, radiational, and thermal energy technology; electrochemistry; food and feed chemistry; textile and fibers; fertilizers, soils, and plant nutrition; agrochemical bioregulators; pharmaceuticals; pharmacology; essential oils and cosmetics; toxicology; surface active agents and detergents; heterocyclic compounds (more than one hetero atom); heterocyclic compounds (one hetero atom); industrial organic chemicals, leather, fats, and waxes; coatings, inks, and related products; dyes, organic pigments, fluorescent brighteners, and photographic sensitizers; industrial carbohydrates; surface chemistry and colloids; terpenes and terpenoids; plastics fabrication and uses; plastics manufacture and processing; chemistry of synthetic high polymers; biomolecules and their synthetic analogs; alkaloids; amino acids, peptides, and proteins
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Fig. 3
a Distribution of patents deposited in the decade 2003–2013, according to classification into CA section titles. Data are from Chemical Abstracts Service/SciFinder Scholar based on the combined CAS and Medline databases with duplicated removed. b Distribution of patents deposited in the decade 2003–2013 among the owners (companies and research institutions). The gray slice corresponds to owners possessing less than 1 % of total published patents
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