2012酶工程专刊序言

Preface for special issue on enzyme engineering(2012)

酶工程是酶学与工程科学融合的综合性科学技术,是现代生物技术与未来生物经济的支柱。近年来,随着在合成生物学研究上的突破,作为合成生物学重要核心内容的酶工程研究受到重视与关注,为促进国内酶工程研究的发展,本期"酶工程专刊"介绍了我国酶工程专家与青年学者在新酶的发掘、酶的作用机制及酶的生产与应用方面所取得的最新进展。

Enzyme engineering is a combined technology of enzymology and engineering, which is becoming the major foundation for modern biotechnology and bio-economy in near future. Recently, a breakthrough in synthetic biology demonstrates a possibility to develop artificial biosystems for biofuel and biorefinery. As one of the cores in synthetic biology, enzyme engineering has drawn more attentions all over the world. To promote enzyme engineering research in China, invited reviews and selected research articles were published in this special issue of ＂Enzyme Engineering＂. The reviews and research articles focus on the fields of discovery of new enzymes, mechanism of action modes, and production and application of enzymes.