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Use of Enzymes in Biotechnology In this essay I will attempt to explore the uses and other important aspects of using enzymes in biotechnology, pondering over some of the most well known industries to current everyday life. Enzymes are used in an ever widening range of industrial applications including but not limited to detergents manufacture, textile modification, leather processing, paper production, and food production. Enzymes are also used in the pharmaceutical industry for the bioprocessing of therapeutic molecules where their specificity, efficiency, and biodegradability are particularly advantageous. For instance, proteases such as trypsin and carboxypeptidase B are useful for the bioprocessing of therapeutic proteins. An example of such use is the manufacture of insulin via microbial fermentation that requires both of these enzymes in order to process the fermentation derived insulin precursor into a therapeutic entity identical to human insulin. Biotechnology has been defined as: * The application of biological organisms,...

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