Department of Environmental Studies, Satyawati College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110052, India; Department of Environmental Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India.
Department of Community Medicine & Pilgrims Healthcare, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia.
Int J Food Microbiol. 2023 Mar 2;388:110069. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2022.110069. Epub 2022 Dec 31.
Microorganisms have been extensively studied and used to produce a wide range of enzymes and bioactive substances for a number of uses. Cellulases have also been widely used for a variety of bioprocessing and biotransformation purposes and are acknowledged as the essential enzymes for industrial applications. Broad industrial applications and huge demand essentially require mass-scale and low-cost production of cellulase enzyme. Nevertheless, low-cost production of cellulase enzyme at industrial-level finds certain issues, and this may be mainly associated with the unavailability of cheap and effective substrate to be utilized in fermentation process. In this context, cellulosic wastes are counted as one of the suitable bioresources and have been well explored for low-cost and highly efficient cellulase enzyme productions. Further, banana peels waste is considered as the high cellulose & sugar containing food wastes which is renewable and hugely available worldwide. Therefore, the present review explores the possible utilizations of banana peels as a potential food waste to be employed as substrate to produce cellulase enzymes. Availability and compositional analysis of banana peels has been explored for the microbial cellulase production based on reported studies. Further, this review explores the applications of cellulase enzymes as antimicrobial agents. Based on the available studies and their evaluation, potential limitations and future suggestions for the production of cellulase enzymes and their applications as antibacterial agents have been provided, which have a high potential for numerous biomedical applications and may offer a new opportunity for industrial utility.
微生物已被广泛研究和用于生产各种酶和生物活性物质，用于多种用途。纤维素酶也已被广泛用于各种生物加工和生物转化目的，并被认为是工业应用的必需酶。广泛的工业应用和巨大的需求本质上需要大规模和低成本的纤维素酶生产。然而，在工业水平上低成本生产纤维素酶存在一些问题，这可能主要与发酵过程中可用的廉价和有效的底物的缺乏有关。在这种情况下，纤维素废物被认为是合适的生物资源之一，并已被广泛用于低成本和高效纤维素酶生产。此外，香蕉皮被认为是一种高纤维素和含糖量的食物废物，它是可再生的，在全球范围内大量存在。因此，本综述探讨了香蕉皮作为一种潜在的食物废物的可能用途，可作为生产纤维素酶的底物。根据已有的研究，探讨了香蕉皮的可用性和组成分析，以用于微生物纤维素酶的生产。此外，本综述探讨了纤维素酶作为抗菌剂的应用。基于现有的研究及其评估，为纤维素酶的生产及其作为抗菌剂的应用提供了潜在的局限性和未来的建议，这在许多生物医学应用中有很高的潜力，并可能为工业利用提供新的机会。
