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SUBMITTER: Chauhan PS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5602783 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chauhan Prakram Singh PS Goradia Bindi B Saxena Arunika A
3 Biotech 20170916 5
Laccases (benzenediol: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.10.3.2) are multi-copper enzymes which catalyze the oxidation of a wide range of phenolic and non-phenolic aromatic compounds in the presence or absence of a mediator. Till date, laccases have mostly been isolated from fungi and plants, whereas laccase from bacteria has not been well studied. Bacterial laccases have several unique properties that are not characteristics of fungal laccases such as stability at high temperature and high pH. Bacter ...[more]