智能固定化酶载体的研究进展

目前,工业微生物提供了大量的酶源。为了进一步提升酶的利用,固定化酶技术推动了生物催化过程的进展。固定化酶载体的研究为固定化酶技术发挥酶作用提供了更大的空间。近年来研究发现,智能型载体作用于酶的固定化方面较传统固定化酶方式具有独特的优势,增加了酶的负载量,稳定和提高了酶活力,降低了底物和产物抑制,并且简化了酶回收操作,是一种理想的酶固定化载体材料。本文针对对环境因素,例如温度、pH、离子强度、光以及磁等,敏感的智能固定化酶载体研究进展,从载体性质、应答机理、以及这些载体固定化酶的应用等方面进行综述。     

植物细胞培养生产天然产物的研究进展

植物细胞培养技术已成为工业化生产天然产物的一条新途径。本文概述了植物细胞悬浮培养和固定化植物细胞系统生产天然产物的研究进展,介绍了植物细胞培养的产物,提高产物产量的途径和培养系统等方面的研究动态,讨论了目前存在的问题以及未来的发展趋向。     

固定化对微生物生理变化的影响

固定化微生物技术近年来得到了广泛的应用研究,然而,人们关于固定化对微生物生理特性影响方面的知识还很缺乏,文献报道不多且比较零散,严重滞后于固定化微生物的应用研究。综述了固定化对微生物生理特性方面的影响,包括固定化对微生物生长速率、对微生物活性、对有毒物质的耐受性以及对细胞中DNARNA总量变化等方面的影响。     

微生物共培养技术的研究进展

摘要:本文对微生物共培养的发展历史及其在食品、农业、工业及污水净化等方面的应用进行了综述,并对已知的共培养微生物之间的生态学关系进行了总结。人们利用微生物联合共培养、序列共培养和共固定化细胞混菌培养等技术来获得新的代谢产物,提高产量,改造传统发酵工业,生产能源物质,提高底物利用率,扩大底物范围,降解有毒物质。共培养微生物之间可能具有协同代谢作用、诱导作用、种间群体感应、基因转移等多种生态学关系。对共培养微生物之间的微生态机理进行深入系统的研究,有助于充分发挥共培养技术的应用潜力。     

多酶共固定化的研究进展

固定化酶技术是现代生物催化的核心技术。过去几十年里,固定化酶技术的研究主要集中在单酶固定化。近年来,多酶共固定化由于具有可增加反应的局部浓度、提高反应收率等优点而得到研究者的广泛关注。本文根据国内外研究现状并结合本实验研究从多酶非特异性共价共固定化、非特异性非共价共固定化、非共价包埋固定化以及位点特异性固定化四个方面阐述多酶固定化方法的研究进展,并分析和展望了其在工业上的应用前景。     

工程菌E.coli MM2的固定化细胞制备

固定化细胞技术是七十年代兴起的一门应用技术。固定化细胞具有细胞密度高、易进行连续生产且稀释率高、不易被污染、产物易分离、可降低设备规模等优点,已成为生物合成、生物转化的有效工具,得到广泛应用。近十年来,人们把固定化细胞技术应用到工程菌的培养中取得了一些有价值的结果。用工程菌制得的固定化细胞裂解青霉素生产6-APA,已达工业化生产水平。据文献报道,工程菌固定化后可大大提高重组质粒的稳定性,并且外源基因能稳定地表达。本所马清钧研究员等构建的工程菌     

固定化技术在促进光合细菌产氢中的应用

氢气是一种新型的清洁高效能源,制氢技术的创新是目前研究的热点。将新型的技术及材料应用到生物制氢工艺中,从而促进生物制氢技术的产氢效率和工程应用是研究的重点之一。该文阐述了光合细菌在固定化生长条件下发酵产氢的最新研究进展,从固定化技术的原理、固定化方法的应用进展及影响因素几个方面进行了综述,详细阐述了包括包埋、悬浮载体附着生长及固定生物膜法等几种固定化方法对光发酵产氢的作用,介绍了国内外用于固定化的新型材料,并对今后的研究重点及方向进行了展望。     

尿苷二磷酸糖固定化酶合成法研究

利用生物酶进行体外催化反应合成不同种类的尿苷二磷酸糖（uridine diphosphate sugar,UDP-糖）,生物酶的重复利用率较低。为提高尿苷二磷酸糖的合成效率及增加产物种类,以镍螯合聚丙烯酸酯树脂为载体,对带有HIS标签的N-乙酰己糖胺激酶（N-acetylhexosamine kinase,NahK）和尿苷转移酶（uridine transferase,GlmU）进行固定化。以固定化NahK和固定化GlmU为催化酶,不同单糖作为底物,研究尿苷二磷酸糖的一锅法合成情况。利用Q柱对产物进行纯化,通过高效液相色谱法、质谱法、核磁共振氢谱法对反应产物进行检测。确定了镍螯合聚丙烯酸酯树脂对游离NahK和GlmU的实际载量分别为10和20 mg·g^-1。固定化酶量的最优配比为5.5 g固定化NahK和2.5 g固定化GlmU。固定化酶的最适pH和温度分别为8.0和35℃,且能在重复反应中稳定反应5个批次。葡萄糖、N-乙酰氨基葡萄糖和甘露糖可以参与一锅法反应,生成UDP-糖的相对分子质量分别为566、607、566,而葡萄糖醛酸、半乳糖和果糖在该体系下不能合成相应的UDP-糖。基于固定化酶技术,一锅法可合成UDP-葡萄糖、UDP-N-乙酰氨基葡萄糖、UDP-甘露糖。     

聚乙烯醇固定化酵母细胞制备CTP研究

以聚乙烯醇为固定化载体,固定化冷冻处理过的啤酒酵母细胞从CMP制备CTP;分别从胶的型号、浓度和固定化方法的优化等方面摸索了最适的固定化条件,固定化细胞在试验条件下连续发酵8次,转化率维持在85%～95%。同时,还对固定化细胞的稳定性进行试验研究,并用HPLC对产品进行了分离鉴定。     

包埋法固定微生物细胞技术的新进展

自六十年代固定化酶技术问世以来,固定化细胞技术随之迅速发展。到了七十年代,作为酶源的微生物菌体本身的固定化又引起人们极大兴趣,其研究和应用已涉及食品、化工、医药、环境保护等领域。目前,工业化生产上采用的固定化方法主要有两大类:吸附法和包埋法。微生物菌体的固定化一般采用包埋法。其优点是:(1)微生物菌体包埋在聚合物中不易漏出;(2)操作条件温和、对外界环境的缓冲作用大;(3)可防止微生物菌体的机械损伤,易于再生,产物分离提取容易。 载体的性能影响固定化细胞的机械强度、细胞活性、工作稳定性,因此,载体的选择及其制备方法一直     

Laccase immobilization and insolubilization: from fundamentals to applications for the elimination of emerging contaminants in wastewater treatment

Over the last few decades many attempts have been made to use biocatalysts for the biotransformation of emerging contaminants in environmental matrices. Laccase, a multicopper oxidoreductase enzyme, has shown great potential in oxidizing a large number of phenolic and non-phenolic emerging contaminants. However, laccases and more broadly enzymes in their free form are biocatalysts whose applications in solution have many drawbacks rendering them currently unsuitable for large scale use. To circumvent these limitations, the enzyme can be immobilized onto carriers or entrapped within capsules; these two immobilization techniques have the disadvantage of generating a large mass of non-catalytic product. Insolubilization of the free enzymes as cross-linked enzymes (CLEAs) is found to yield a greater volume ratio of biocatalyst while improving the characteristics of the biocatalyst. Ultimately, novel techniques of enzymes insolubilization and stabilization are feasible with the combination of cross-linked enzyme aggregates (combi-CLEAs) and enzyme polymer engineered structures (EPESs) for the elimination of emerging micropollutants in wastewater. In this review, fundamental features of laccases are provided in order to elucidate their catalytic mechanism, followed by different chemical aspects of the immobilization and insolubilization techniques applicable to laccases. Finally, kinetic and reactor design effects for enzymes in relation with the potential applications of laccases as combi-CLEAs and EPESs for the biotransformation of micropollutants in wastewater treatment are discussed.     

Metabolic engineering of Cyanobacteria and microalgae for enhanced production of biofuels and high‐value products

A lot of research has been performed on Cyanobacteria and microalgae with the aim to produce numerous biotechnological products. However, native strains have a few shortcomings, like limitations in cultivation, harvesting and product extraction, which prevents reaching optimal production value at lowest costs. Such limitations require the intervention of genetic engineering to produce strains with superior properties. Promising advancements in the cultivation of Cyanobacteria and microalgae have been achieved by improving photosynthetic efficiency through increasing RuBisCO activity and truncation of light‐harvesting antennae. Genetic engineering has also contributed to final product extraction by inducing autolysis and product secretory systems, to enable direct product recovery without going through costly extraction steps. In this review, we summarize the different enzymes and pathways that have been targeted thus far for improving cultivation aspects, harvesting and product extraction in Cyanobacteria and microalgae. With synthetic biology advancements, genetically engineered strains can be generated to resolve demanding process issues and achieve economic practicality. This comprehensive overview of gene modifications will be useful to researchers in the field to employ on their strains to increase their yields and improve the economic feasibility of the production process.     

Challenges in biocatalysis for enzyme-based biofuel cells

Enzyme-based biofuel cells are attracting attention rapidly partially due to the promising advances reported recently. However, there are issues to be addressed before biofuel cells become competitive in practical applications. Two critical issues are short lifetime and poor power density, both of which are related to enzyme stability, electron transfer rate, and enzyme loading. Recent progress in nanobiocatalysis opens the possibility to improve in these aspects. Many nano-structured materials, such as mesoporous media, nanoparticles, nanofibers, and nanotubes, have been demonstrated as efficient hosts of enzyme immobilization. It is evident that, when nanostructure of conductive materials are used, the large surface area of these nanomaterials can increase the enzyme loading and facilitate reaction kinetics, and thus improving the power density of biofuel cells. In addition, research efforts have also been made to improve the activity and stability of immobilized enzymes by using nanostructures. It appears to be reasonable to us to expect that progress in nanostuctured biocatalysts will play a critical role in overcoming the major obstacles in the development of powerful biofuel cells.     

A Fortran Program for Evaluation of the Effectiveness Factor of Biocatalysts in the Presence of External and Internal Diffusional Limitations

A Fortran program called SPEFF for evaluation of the effectiveness factor of immobilized enzyme preparations of spherical form in the presence of external and internal mass transfer resistances is described, and a listing of the program is given. Enzyme distribution in the bioparticle may be uniform or nonuniform. In the latter case the enzyme distribution is approximated by fifth-order polynomial. In the program differential equations are replaced by the system of non-linear algebraic equations, and the latter are solved by Newton iteration technique. The program is developed for Michaelis-Menten kinetics with allowance for competitive product inhibition and substrate inhibition. After slight modifications the program can be used for computation of the effectiveness factor of a membrane with an immobilized enzyme, or in the case when the enzyme kinetics are more complex. A typical run on a PDP-11/45 computer took 10-20 seconds. A typical computation time in the case of IBM-compatible TURBO PC was 15-30 seconds.     

Biocatalysis in organic media

The potentials of using organic reaction media in biotechnological conversions have already been demonstrated in several experimental studies. Examples of possible advantages are: possibility of higher substrate and/or product concentrations, favorable shift of reaction equilibria, reduced substrate and/or product inhibition, and facilitated product recovery. Especially water/organic solvent two-phase systems seem to possess several of these advantages. The solvent type will highly affect kinetics and stability of the (immobilized) biocatalyst, solubility and partitioning of reactants/products, and product recovery. Therefore the solvent choice can have a large influence on the economics of the two-liquid-phase biocatalytic process. Immobilization of the biocatalyst may be useful to provide protection against denaturating solvent effects. The polarity of the employed support material will also be decisive for the partitioning of substrates and products among the various phases.

A classification of biphasic systems, which is based on the possible types of theoretical concentration profiles and aqueous phase configurations, is discussed. Reversed micelles and aqueous two-liquid-phase systems can be considered as special cases. The design of two-liquid-phase bioreactors is dependent on the state of the biocatalyst, free or immobilized, and on the necessity for emulsification of one of the two liquid phases in the other. Many mass-transfer resistances, e.g. across the liquid/liquid interface, in the aqueous phase, across the liquid/solid interface, and in the biocatalyst phase, can limit the overall reaction rate. The epoxidation of alkenes in water/solvent two-phase systems is discussed to give an example of the scope of biotechnological processes that is obtained by using organic media. Finally, a design calculation of a packed-bed organic-liquid-phasel immobilized-biocatalyst reactor for the epoxidation of propene is given to illustrate some of the above aspects.     

Polymer supported synthesis of a natural product-inspired oxepane library

Natural product inspired compound collections are prevalidated due to the evolutionary selection of the natural product scaffolds. Their synthesis requires the development of novel strategies amenable to formats suitable for library build-up. We describe a method for the synthesis of an oxepane library inspired by the core structure of oxepane natural products endowed with multiple bioactivities. Core aspects of the strategy are the establishment of a one-pot method employing different immobilized scavengers, the employment of an enyne ring closing reaction and diversification by means of different transformations, for example, cycloadditions and cross-metathesis reactions. In total, a collection of 115 oxepanes was obtained in 5–6-step reaction sequences.     

Exploiting immobilized metal affinity membranes for the isolation or purification of therapeutically relevant species

Increasing reports regarding the isolation or purification of biospecies for therapeutic purpose using the immobilized metal affinity chromatography have been presented in recent years. At the same time, membrane chromatography technique has also gained more and more attention for their advantage in speeding the separation process. The immobilized metal affinity membrane technique developed by combining these two techniques may provide an alternative potential tool for separating the therapeutically relevant biospecies. In this review paper, the features of the immobilized metal affinity membranes are discussed and concentrated on three subtopics: membrane matrices, immobilized metal affinity method, and membrane module designs. Several examples of practically applying the immobilized metal affinity membranes on the purification of potential therapeutics reported in the literature are subsequently presented. Lastly, this review also provides an overall evaluation on the possible advantages and problems existing in this technique to point out opportunities and further improvements for more applied development of the immobilized metal affinity membranes.     

Enzyme catalyzed biotransformations in aqueous two-phase systems with precipitated substrate and/or product

Biotransformations catalyzed by free and immobilized enzymes have been carried out in aqueous suspensions with up to 25% (w/w) precipitated substrate or product. For the kinetically controlled synthesis of N-Acetyl-Tyr-Arg-NH(2) with up to 0.8 M insoluble activated substrate N-Acetyl-TyrOEt catalyzed by alpha-chymotrypsin (EC3.4.21.1) the dipeptide yield was found to be >90%. This and the space-time yields were higher than those observed for one-phase aqueous systems and much higher than in systems where the insoluble substrate had been solubilized by addition of organic solvents. In the equilibrium controlled hydrolysis of 0.4 M D-phenylglycine-amide catalyzed by immobilized penicillin amidase (EC 3.5.1.11) the product precipitates. The enzyme immobilized in the support with the smallest pores could be reused without reduction in the rate due to precipitation in the pores. This decreases the number of immobilized enzyme molecules that can be used as biocatalysts. The latter was observed for supports with larger pores as the solubility decreases with increasing particle size. These results demonstrate that biotransformations with insoluble substrates or products using free or immobilized enzymes can be easily carried out in aqueous two-phase systems, without organic solvents, provided that the pore sizes of the supports are sufficiently small and that the rate of mass transfer from the precipitated substrate is large. The latter increases with decreasing particle size. (c) 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Status and developmental prospects of microbiology

The achievements of microbiology in the field of chemistry studying, molecular biology and cellular structure of bacteria are reflected in this review. The peculiarities of energetic, synthetic processes in prokaryotes and also the different methods of regulation of their metabolism have been shown. The achievements in the field of new strains construction and creation of biocatalysts on the basis of immobilized cells and enzymes for the biotechnological purposes have been elucidated. The role of microbiology in solving such social problems as the purification of environment from pollution, replenishing the resources of energy and protein which are rapidly exhausted has been shown.     

磷酸化蛋白质及多肽相关研究的技术进展

磷酸化修饰是一种重要的蛋白质化学修饰, 对蛋白质功能的完成或改变起到重要作用。该领域的研究存在很多技术难点, 对该领域研究形成了挑战。近年来相关技术有了很多突破, 磷酸化研究也取得了很多新的成就。文章将从磷酸化蛋白的检出、磷酸化蛋白质和肽段的富集、生物质谱技术的改进以及磷酸化蛋白和多肽的定量与比较几个方面介绍该研究领域的技术进展。