The main areas of development in industrial biotechnology of InKemia IUCT group are:
- New microorganism prospects and enzymes derived from extreme environments
- Obtention of novelty enzymes as industrial biocatalysts to be used in the fine chemistry sector or related.
- Purified expression of proteins
- Design and optimization of biocatalysts
- Design of biocatalyst processes
- Scale-up studies for biotechnological processes
Techniques of specialization:
- Cloning of host cells both prokaryotic and eukaryotic
- Cloning of vectors
- Constitutive and inductive expression of proteins in prokaryotes and yeasts
- Primer design
- Set-up of biotransformation reactions mediated by microorganisms or purified fractions of microorganisms.
- Biosynthesis of APIs both antiviral and anti-cancer
- Biosynthesis of monomers and vitamin K3
- Purification of products and metabolites
- Identification of Products and metabolites
- Creation of fusion proteins
- Quantitative and qualitative determination of DNA, RNA and proteins
- Ames Test