Recent advances in bioinspired multienzyme engineering for food applications

Background: Bioinspired multienzyme engineering provides strong technical support for enhancing food quality, safety, and nutrition. Summarizing and examining its applications and progress in the food industry are essential for exploring the future of food development. Inspired by efficient catalysis of nature at complex reactions, bioinspired multienzyme engineering leveraging the synergistic action of multiple enzymes to achieve targeted outcomes in food processing and analysis. Scope and approach: This paper reviews the latest advancements in bioinspired multienzyme engineering within the food sector, highlighting its core operational principles and applications. It provides a systematic analysis of diverse bioinspired multienzyme engineering approaches, exploring assembly strategies, interaction types, and techniques to enhance the enzymes' functionality and catalytic efficiency. The discussion also covers the technology's applications in food biosynthesis, quality monitoring, contaminant degradation, and packaging enhancement. Key findings and conclusions: Bioinspired multienzyme engineering is revolutionizing the food industry with its efficiency and eco-friendliness. As protein engineering, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence and machine learning advance, bioinspired multienzyme engineering promises to address stability, activity, scalability, and regulatory challenges, broadening its applications from bioactive compound production and biosensor design to contaminant degradation and smart packaging.