α-Amylase: Its Structure, Molecular Modification, and Application in the Food Field.

Gang Liu, Manuel Montalbán-López, Dehua Wei, Lei Wang, Xuefeng Wu, Xingjiang Li, Dongdong Mu

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Review in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Unlocking the molecular engineering of Geobacillus glycoside hydrolases as a source of industrial biocatalysts.Biotechnology letters · 2026
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Gang LiuAnhui Fermented Food Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory for Agricultural Products Processing of Anhui Province, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.

Manuel Montalbán-LópezInstitute of Biotechnology, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2936-9077

Dehua WeiAnhui Fermented Food Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory for Agricultural Products Processing of Anhui Province, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.

Lei WangAnhui Fermented Food Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory for Agricultural Products Processing of Anhui Province, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.

Xuefeng WuAnhui Fermented Food Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory for Agricultural Products Processing of Anhui Province, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9257-0358

Xingjiang LiAnhui Fermented Food Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory for Agricultural Products Processing of Anhui Province, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.

Dongdong MuAnhui Fermented Food Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory for Agricultural Products Processing of Anhui Province, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4138-0575

Funding

Fundamental Research Funds from Anhui Fengyuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd. W2024JSFW0924Key Science & Technology Project of Anhui Province 202423m10050005National Key Research and Development Program of China 2025YFF1107303National Natural Science Foundation of China 32472299Natural Science Fund of Anhui Province 2408085MC082

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Abstract

This review comprehensively examines the structural architecture, catalytic mechanisms, and targeted molecular engineering of α-amylase (primarily the GH13 family), a pivotal biocatalyst in the food industry. We highlight diverse microbial sources of α-amylases and their cost-effective heterologous expression in well-characterized hosts like

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protein engineeringstructure determinationα-amylase

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PMID42121498

DOI10.3390/foods15091555

PMCPMC13163881

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