Immobilization of trypsin on chitosan gels: use of different activation protocols and comparison with other supports

Trypsin was immobilized on chitosan gels coagulated with 0.1 or 1 M NaOH and activated with glutaraldehyde or glycidol. The derivatives were characterized by their recovered activity, thermal (40, 55 and 70 degrees C) and alkaline (pH 11) stabilities, amount of enzyme immobilized on gels for several enzyme loads (8-14 mg(protein)/g(Gel)) and compared to agarose derivatives. Enzyme loads higher than 14 mg(protein)/g(Gel) can be immobilized on glutaraldehyde derivatives, which showed 100% immobilization yield and, for loads up to 8 mg(protein)/g(Gel), 100% recovered activity. Activation with glycidol led to lower immobilization yields than the ones obtained with glutaraldehyde, 61% for agarose-glyoxyl (AgGly) with low grade of activation and 16% for the chitosan-glyoxyl (ChGly), but allowed obtaining the most stable derivative (ChGly), that was 660-fold more stable than the soluble enzyme at 55 and 70 degrees C-approximately threefold more stable than AgGly. The ChGly derivative presented also the highest stability during incubation at pH 11. Analyses of lysine residue contents in soluble and immobilized trypsin indicated formation of multipoint bonds between enzyme and support, for glyoxyl derivatives.     

吸附-交联法固定D-泛解酸内酯水解酶的研究

选择6种吸附树脂和离子交换树脂对D-泛解酸内酯水解酶进行固定化,筛选出了固定化效果较好的大孔弱碱性丙烯酸系阴离子交换树脂D-380为载体,用先吸附后交联的方法固定化。通过实验对固定化条件进行了优化,得出最佳的固定化条件为：加酶量6U／g树脂、吸附pH7．5、吸附时间4h、吸附温度30℃、交联剂戊二醛终浓度0．1％、交联时间2h。实验表明在此条件下制得的固定化酶有很好的稳定性：固定化酶在连续20次的底物水解反应后,剩余酶活达到71％。当温度达到80℃时游离酶几乎失去酶活,而固定化酶剩余酶活为60％以上。游离酶的pH稳定性范围为pH7～8,而固定化酶为pH6．5～8．5。     

Stabilization of a raw starch digesting amylase from Aspergillus carbonarius via immobilization on activated and non-activated agarose gel

Applications of raw starch digesting amylases (RSDAs) are limited due to instability, product inhibition of enzyme and contamination. RSDA from Aspergillus carbonarius was stabilized through immobilization on agarose gel by adsorption, spontaneous crosslinking and conjugation using glycidol, glutaraldehyde or polyglutaraldehyde. Effects of immobilization on kinetics, catalytic, storage and operational stability of immobilized enzyme were evaluated. Polyglutaraldehyde activated agarose RSDA (PGAg-RSDA) gave the highest immobilization yield (100%) with expressed activity of 86.7% while that of glycidol activated RSDA (GlyAg-RSDA) was 80.4%. A shift in pH from optimum of 5 for the soluble enzyme to 6 for RSDA adsorbed on agarose followed by crosslinking with glutaraldehyde (AgRSDA-CROSS) and simultaneous adsorption and crosslinking (AgRSDA-RET), and pH 7 for PGAg-RSDA was seen. PGAg-RSDA and AgRSDA-CROSS were most pH stable and retained over 82% of their activities between pH 3.5 and 9 compared to 59% for the soluble enzyme. Thermoinactivation studies showed that immobilized RSDAs with the exception of GAg-RSDA retained over 90% of their activities at 60°C for 120 min while soluble enzyme retained only 76% activity under the same condition. AgRSDA-CROSS, PGAg-RSDA, Gly-RSDA and GAg-RSDA retained approximately 100% of their activities after 30 days storage at 4°C. GlyAg-RSDA retained 99.6%, PGAg-RSDA 94%, AgRSDA-CROSS 90%, GAg-RSDA 86.5% and Ag-RSDA-RET 80% activity after 10 batch reactions. Immobilization stabilized RSDA and permits processing at higher temperatures to reduce contamination.     

Stabilization of a raw-starch-digesting amylase by multipoint covalent attachment on glutaraldehyde-activated amberlite beads

Raw-starch-digesting enzyme (RSDA) was immobilized on Amberlite beads by conjugation of glutaraldehyde/ polyglutaraldehyde (PG)-activated beads or by crosslinking. The effect of immobilization on enzyme stability and catalytic efficiency was evaluated. Immobilization conditions greatly influenced the immobilization efficiency. Optimum pH values shifted from pH 5 to 6 for spontaneous crosslinking and sequential crosslinking, to pH 6-8 for RSDA covalently attached on polyglutaraldehyde-activated Amberlite beads, and to pH 7 for RSDA on glutaraldehyde-activated Amberlite. RSDA on glutaraldehyde-activated Amberlite beads had no loss of activity after 2 h storage at pH 9; enzyme on PG-activated beads lost 9%, whereas soluble enzyme lost 65% of its initial activity. Soluble enzyme lost 50% initial activity after 3 h incubation at 60 degrees C, whereas glutaraldehyde-activated derivative lost only 7.7% initial activity. RSDA derivatives retained over 90% activity after 10 batch reuse at 40 degrees C. The apparent Km of the enzyme reduced from 0.35 mg/ml to 0.32 mg/ml for RSDA on glutaraldehyde-activated RSDA but increased to 0.42 mg/ml for the PG-activated RSDA derivative. Covalent immobilization on glutaraldehyde Amberlite beads was most stable and promises to address the instability and contamination issues that impede the industrial use of RSDAs. Moreover, the cheap, porous, and non-toxic nature of Amberlite, ease of immobilization, and high yield make it more interesting for the immobilization of this enzyme.     

Cooperativity of covalent attachment and ion exchange on alcalase immobilization using glutaraldehyde chemistry: Enzyme stabilization and improved proteolytic activity

Alcalase was scarcely immobilized on monoaminoethyl-N-aminoethyl (MANAE)-agarose beads at different pH values (<20% at pH 7). The enzyme did not immobilize on MANAE-agarose activated with glutaraldehyde at high ionic strength, suggesting a low reactivity of the enzyme with the support functionalized in this manner. However, the immobilization is relatively rapid when using low ionic strength and glutaraldehyde activated support. Using these conditions, the enzyme was immobilized at pH 5, 7, and 9, and in all cases, the activity vs. Boc-Ala-ONp decreased to around 50%. However, the activity vs. casein greatly depends on the immobilization pH, while at pH 5 it is also 50%, at pH 7 it is around 200%, and at pH 9 it is around 140%. All immobilized enzymes were significantly stabilized compared to the free enzyme when inactivated at pH 5, 7, or 9. The highest stability was always observed when the enzyme was immobilized at pH 9, and the worst stability occurred when the enzyme was immobilized at pH 5, in agreement with the reactivity of the amino groups of the enzyme. Stabilization was lower for the three preparations when the inactivation was performed at pH 5. Thus, this is a practical example on how the cooperative effect of ion exchange and covalent immobilization may be used to immobilize an enzyme when only one independent cause of immobilization is unable to immobilize the enzyme, while adjusting the immobilization pH leads to very different properties of the final immobilized enzyme preparation. © 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 35: e2768, 2019.     

Preparation and characterization of Rhizopus amyloglucosidase immobilized on poly(o-toluidine)

The starch hydrolyzing enzyme amyloglucosidase (AMG) from Rhizopus was immobilized onto the protonated salt (TS) and basic (TB) forms of chemically synthesized poly(o-toluidine) (POT) using adsorption and covalent binding. The polymers were activated with glutaraldehyde prior to covalent bonding. The immobilization efficiency was affected by the pH of the immobilization medium, contact time and amount of enzyme. After immobilization, the pH and temperature were changed to conditions under which the enzyme is most active. Immobilized AMG was more stable with respect to changes in pH and increases in temperature compared to free AMG. The immobilized enzyme retained high catalytic activity after multiple uses and showed enhanced stability with storage compared to free enzyme.     

Immobilization of Papain on the Mesoporous Molecular Sieve MCM‐48

The immobilization of papain on the mesoporous molecular sieve MCM‐48 (with a pore size of 6.2 nm in diameter) with the aid of glutaraldehyde, and the characteristics of this immobilized papain are described. The optimum conditions for immobilization were as follows: 20 mg native free enzyme/g of the MCM‐48 and 0.75 % glutaraldehyde, 2 h at 10–20 °C and pH 7.0. Under these optimum conditions for immobilization, the activity yield [%] of the immobilized enzyme was around 70 %. The influence of the pH on the activity of the immobilized enzyme was much lower compared to the free enzyme. The thermostability of the immobilized enzyme, whose half‐life was more than 2500 min, was greatly improved and was found to be significantly higher than that of the free enzyme (about 80 min). The immobilized enzyme also showed good operational stability, and the activity of the immobilized enzyme continued to maintain 76.5 % of the initial activity even after a 12‐day continuous operation. Moreover, the immobilized enzyme still exhibited good storage stability. From these results, papain immobilized on the MCM‐48 with the aid of glutaraldehyde, can be used as a high‐performance biocatalyst in biotechnological processing, in particular in industrial and medical applications.     

Tuning of Lecitase features via solid-phase chemical modification: Effect of the immobilization protocol

Lecitase Ultra (a quimeric fosfolipase commercialized by Novozymes) has been immobilized via two different strategies: mild covalent attachment on cyanogen bromide agarose beads and interfacial activation on octyl-agarose beads. Both immobilized preparations have been submitted to different individual or cascade chemical modifications (amination, glutaraldehyde or 2,4,6-trinitrobenzensulfonic acid (TNBS) modification) in order to check the effect of these modifications on the catalytic features of the immobilized enzymes (including stability and substrate specificity under different conditions). The first point to be remarked is that the immobilization strongly affects the enzyme catalytic features: octyl-Lecitase was more active versus p-nitrophenylbutyrate but less active versus methyl phenylacetate than the covalent preparations. Moreover, the effects of the chemical modifications strongly depend on the immobilization strategy used. For example, using one immobilization protocol a modification improves activity, while for the other immobiled enzyme is even negative. Most of the modifications presented a positive effect on some enzyme properties under certain conditions, although in certain cases that modification presented a negative effect under other conditions. For example, glutaraldehyde modification of immobilized or modified and aminated enzyme permitted to improve enzyme stability of both immobilized enzymes at pH 7 and 9 (around a 10-fold), but only the aminated enzyme improved the enzyme stability at pH 5 by glutaraldehyde treatment. This occurred even though some intermolecular crosslinking could be detected via SDS-PAGE. Amination improved the stability of octyl-Lecitase, while it reduced the stability of the covalent preparation. Modification with TNBS only improved enzyme stability of the covalent preparation at pH 9 (by a 10-fold factor).     

漆酶在磁性壳聚糖微球上的固定及其酶学性质研究

以磁性壳聚糖微球为载体,戊二醛为交联剂,共价结合制备固定化漆酶。探讨了漆酶固定化的影响因素,并对固定化漆酶的性质进行了研究。确定漆酶固定化适宜条件为：50 mg磁性壳聚糖微球,加入10mL 0.8mg/mL 漆酶磷酸盐缓冲液（0.1mol/L,pH 7.0）,在4℃固定2h。固定化酶最适pH为3.0, 最适温度分别为10℃和55℃,均比游离酶降低5℃。在pH 3.0,温度37℃时,固定化酶对ABTS的表观米氏常数为171.1μmol/L。与游离酶相比,该固定化漆酶热稳定性明显提高,并具有良好的操作和存储稳定性。     

Functional immobilization of lipase eliminating lipolysis product inhibition

Lipase from Pseudomonas fluorescens biotype I was immobilized on macroporous anion exchange resin using glutaraldehyde to enhance the adsorption. The immobilization method was selected, because it provided the highest extent of hydrolysis of beef tallow at high substrate concentrations. The immobilized lipase was not substantially inhibited by oleic acid or sodium oleate, but the soluble lipase was strongly inhibited by both substances. The optimum pH of lipolysis was pH 4 for the immobilized lipase and pH 6 for the soluble one. These results indicate that the microenvironment created around the lipase molecule by immobilization eliminates product inhibition. In addition, the immobilization on the support enhances the stability of the lipase against chemical denuaturation. (c) 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Immobilization of pectinase fromSclerotium rolfsii

Immobilization of pectinase fromS. rolfsii was studied on different matrices of which Amberlite XAD-7 showed maximum adsorption and expression of the enzyme. The most active preparation was obtained when XAD-7 was activated with 2% glutaraldehyde and 1.7 μkat of enzyme per g resin was used for immobilization at pH 5.5 and 28°C. Optimum pH and temperature of theS. rolfsii pectinase remain unaltered, 3.5 and 55°C, respectively, after immobilization. However, the apparentK _M value of the enzyme decreased from 1.75 g/L for soluble enzyme preparation to 1.4 g/L for immobilized enzyme preparation. Both soluble and immobilized enzyme preparations were most stable at pH 4.0. The immobilized enzyme preparation was more stable than the soluble enzyme.     

Application of response surface methodology to optimization of the fixation of ribonuclease a on glutaraldehyde activated amine silica

Summary We have used response surface methodology to study the interactions between various parameters (pH, temperature, enzyme concentration) controlling the immobilization of ribonuclease A on to glutaraldehyde activated-amine Spherosil beads. The optimum activity of immobilized ribonuclease A was observed at pH=9.1. The specific activity of the immobilized enzyme was affected by the pH and by the enzyme concentration.     

Immobilization of Aspergillus oryzae β-galactosidase in ion exchange resins by combined ionic-binding method and cross-linking

The main objective of the present work is to study the immobilization process of Aspergillus oryzae β-galactosidase using the ionic exchange resin Duolite A568 as carrier. Initially, the immobilization process by ionic binding was studied through a central composite design (CCD), by analyzing the simultaneous influences of the enzyme concentration and pH on the immobilization medium. The results indicate that the retention of enzymatic activity during the immobilization process was strongly dependant of those variables, being maximized at pH 4.5 and enzyme concentration of 16 g/L. The immobilized enzyme obtained under the previous conditions was subjected to a cross-linking process with glutaraldehyde and the conditions that maximized the activity were a glutaraldehyde concentration of 3.83 g/L and cross-linking time of 1.87 h. The residual activity of the immobilized enzyme without glutaraldehyde cross-linking was 51% of the initial activity after 30 uses, while the enzyme with cross-linking immobilization was retained 90% of its initial activity. The simultaneous influence of pH and temperature on the immobilized β-galactosidase activity was also studied through a central composite design (CCD). The results indicate a greater stability on pH variations when using the cross-linking process.     

α-环状糊精葡萄糖基转移酶的固定化及其性质研究

研究了一种α-环糊精葡萄糖基转移酶的固定化和固定化酶的性质。通过对戊二醛浓度、酶量和交联时间各单因素的考察,确定了最佳的固定化条件。与游离酶相比,以DEAE纤维素为载体的固定化酶最适pH向酸性偏移,最适温度不变,pH稳定性和热稳定性都有所提高。在40℃、150r/min下反应3h,转化率可以达到32%。固定化酶可以连续使用4次以上。固定化酶在4℃、5mmol/L CaCl2溶液里保存18d,还剩余80%以上的活力。     

Enhanced stabilization of mungbean thiol protease immobilized on glutaraldehyde-activated chitosan beads

A thiol protease purified from mungbean seedlings was immobilized on chitosan beads cross-linked with glutaraldehyde. The yield of the immobilized enzyme was maximum (～99%) at 1% concentration each of chitosan and glutaraldehyde. The immobilized enzyme showed reusability for 15 batch reactions. Immobilization shifted the optimum pH of the enzyme to a more acidic range and enhanced its stability both at acidic as well as alkaline pH values compared to the free enzyme. The stability of the enzyme to temperature and in aqueous non-conventional medium (ethanol and DMSO) was significantly improved by the immobilization process. The immobilized enzyme exhibited mass transfer limitation reflected by a higher apparent K_m value. This study produced an immobilized biocatalyst having improved characteristics and better operational stability than the soluble enzyme. The increase in stability in the presence of high concentrations of ethanol and DMSO may make it useful for catalyzing organic reactions such as trans-esterification and trans-amidation similar to other cysteine proteinases.     

Hydrolysis of triacetin catalyzed by immobilized lipases: effect of the immobilization protocol and experimental conditions on diacetin yield

The effect of the immobilization protocol and some experimental conditions (pH value and presence of acetonitrile) on the regioselective hydrolysis of triacetin to diacetin catalyzed by lipases has been studied. Lipase B from Candida antarctica (CALB) and lipase from Rhizomucor miehei (RML) were immobilized on Sepabeads (commercial available macroporous acrylic supports) activated with glutaraldehyde (covalent immobilization) or octadecyl groups (adsorption via interfacial activation). All the biocatalysts accumulated diacetin. Covalently immobilized RML was more active towards rac-methyl mandelate than the adsorbed RML. However, this covalent RML preparation presented the lowest activity towards triacetin. For this reason, this preparation was discarded as biocatalyst for this reaction. At pH 7, acyl migration occurred giving a mixture of 1,2 and 1,3 diacetin, but at pH 5.5, only 1,2 diacetin was produced. Yields were improved at acidic pH values and in the presence of 20% acetonitrile (to over 95%). RML immobilized on octadecyl Sepabeads was proposed as optimal preparation, mainly due to its higher specific activity. Each enzyme preparation presented very different properties. Moreover, changes in the reaction conditions affected the various immobilized enzymes in a different way.     

Immobilization of catalases from Bacillus SF on alumina for the treatment of textile bleaching effluents

A catalase preparation from a newly isolated Bacillus sp. was covalently immobilized on silanized alumina using glutaraldehyde as crosslinking agent. The effect of the coupling time of the enzyme-support reaction was determined in terms of protein recovery and immobilization yield and a certain balance point was found after which the activity recovery decreased. The activity profile of the immobilized catalase at high pH and temperature was investigated. The immobilized enzyme showed higher stabilities (214 h at pH 11, 30°C) at alkaline pH than the free enzyme (10 h at pH 11, 30°C). The immobilized catalase was inhibited by anionic stabilizers or surfactants added to the hydrogen peroxide substrate solution.     

烟草多酚氧化酶的分离与固定化技术研究

多酚氧化酶属于氧化还原酶类,国际酶学委员会推荐名为儿茶酚氧化酶（ＥＣ１．１０．３．１ｐｏｌｙｐｈｅｎｏｌｏｘｉｄａｓｅ,ＰＰＯ）．该酶与食品工业、三废处理、医药卫生关系较为密切,因而研究较多．如近年来鸭梨［１］、蘑菇［２］、香蕉果肉组织［３］、荔枝果皮［４］等等中的多酚氧化酶均有研究报道．目前研究用固定化多酚氧化酶检测废水中酚类物质含量,进行环境检测;及其从工业废水中除去酚类,达到治理三废的目的．Ｍｏｓｂａｃｎ［５］（１９７６）研制成多酚氧化酶固定化酶柱,与氧电极检测器组合联用,可检测水中２０…     

Immobilization of pancreatic lipase on chitin and chitosan

In this study, porcine pancreatic lipase (EC 3.1.1.3) was immobilized on chitin and chitosan by adsorption and subsequent crosslinking with glutaraldehyde, which was added before (conjugation) or after (crosslinking) washing unbound proteins. Conjugation proved to be the better method for both supports. The properties of free and immobilized enzymes were also investigated and compared. The results showed that the pH optimum was shifted from 8.5 to 9.0 for both the immobilized enzymes. Also, the optimum temperature was shifted from 30 to 40 degrees C for chitin-enzyme and to 45 degrees C for chitosan-enzyme conjugates. The immobilization efficiency is low, but the immobilized enzymes have good reusability and stability (storage and operational). Besides these properties, the immobilized lipases were also suitable for catalyzing esterification reactions of fatty acids and fatty alcohols, both with a medium chain length. According to our results, esterification activities of immobilized lipases were two- and four-fold higher for chitosan- and chitin-enzyme, than for the free enzyme, respectively. The immobilization procedure shows a great potential for commercial applications of the immobilized lipase, a relatively low cost commercial enzyme.     

Immobilization of Escherichia coli cells containing aspartase activity with kappa-carrageenan. Enzymic properties and application for L-aspartic acid production.

Whole cells of Escherichia coli having high aspartase (L-asparate ammonialyase, EC 4.3.1.1) activity were immobilized by entrapping into a kappa-carrageenan gel. The obtained immobilized cells were treated with glutaraldehyde or with glutaraldehyde and hexamethylenediamine. The enzymic properties of three immobilized cell preparations were investigated, and compared with those of the soluble aspartate. The optimum pH of the aspartase reaction was 9.0 for the three immobilized cell preparations and 9.5 for the soluble enzyme. The optimum temperature for three immobilized cell preparations was 5--10 degrees C higher than that for the soluble enzyme. The apparent Km values of immobilized cell preparations were about five times higher than that of the soluble enzyme. The heat stability of intact cells was increased by immobilization. The operational stability of the immobilized cell columns was higher at pH 8.5 than at optimum pH of the aspartase reaction. From the column effluents, L-aspartic acid was obtained in a good yield.