Carbohydrase Market Trends

The carbohydrate hydrolase market is currently undergoing major changes that are reshaping its structure as well as affecting food and beverage, feed and pharmaceutical industries. Carbohydrases break down carbohydrates into smaller sugars because they are enzymes. The trend for these enzymes in the food and beverage industry is on the rise. Today, more people have become health-conscious prompting food manufacturers to include carbohydrases in their products so as to add nutritional value to them. Carbohydrases help in breaking down complex carbohydrates into simpler ones, which eventually result in healthier foods that can be easily digested.
Moreover, there has been an increased use of carbohydrases by animal feed producers. They play a significant role in improving digestion of feed ingredients, nutrient utilization and overall animal health enhancement. A growing global population calls for high demand of high-quality animal protein. As a result, feed formulations have been used and optimized through carbohydrase application thus leading to improved feed efficiency hence sustainable livestock production. This development indicates how important carbohydrate is when addressing issues related to animal nutrition and increasing protein requirements.
Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly adopting silent technology approach with regards to drug formulation design and development. Enzyme activity determines how fast drugs are released from matrices since it depends on such factors like substrate concentration or pH or temperature. Much attention has been diverted towards enzyme-assisted delivery system which mostly focuses on two categories: prodrugs activated via enzyme catalysis; or use of enzymes acting specifically on certain polymers like proteins or peptides. It thus helps increase bioavailability while limiting side effects of drugs upon oral administration
Also, the enzyme applications worldwide have been boosted due to fear over green technology. Broadening range of potential applications for immobilized enzymes occurs with new immobilization chemistries being developed and applied. In the last few years, there has been a rise in the number of products with incorporated enzymes, particularly proteases and lipases. One advantage that underlies their use for such purposes is that they are highly specific catalysts and can be controlled to give desired reaction rates. This has allowed some companies to introduce very specific enzymatic activity profiles into their products.
Besides, there is an increasing interest in high-throughput screening methods for carbohydrate-active enzymes. It can also be referred as in vitro evolution or directed evolution which is a widely used approach of engineering protein molecules guided by selecting for desirable functional properties. Automation of enzyme engineering protocols for specific applications utilizes miniaturization as well as other technologies. Additionally, it helps reduce cost thus making it affordable to apply on large scale basis
Furthermore, there has been increased research in generating polysaccharides with well-defined structures. Most importantly, unlike multiple traditional polysaccharide synthesis pathways; bacterial synthesizes CAPs using distinct pathways each having only one gene set flanked by two inverted repeats. The information gained from this study about the order of steps needed to synthesize CAP4 will be instrumental towards manipulating these synthesis pathways. Therefore, this process should provide insight on how bacteria biosynthesizes various types of capsular polysaccharides.