Polymer-supported enzymes: Achievements,problems and perspectives

Over the last two decades, intense research activity in the area of enzyme and cell immobilisation techniques has fostered the industrial application of several new enzyme-catalysed processes for chemical and pharmaceutical production, as well as for the food industry. Biosensors, based on immobilised enzymes or whole cells, are finding wide-spread applications in the analytical and biomedical fields. The recent remarkable progress attained in the development of recombinant DNA techniques promises to provide any enzyme having properties tailored to meet the specific demands of any user.