Immobilization studies of whole microbial cells on transition metal activated inorganic supports |
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Authors: | J M S Cabral J M Novais J F Kennedy |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratorio de engenharia Bioquimica, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal;(2) Research Laboratory for the Chemistry of Bioactive Carbohydrates and Proteins, Department of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT Birmingham, UK |
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Abstract: | Summary Whole cells of Saccharomyces bayanus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Zymomonas mobilis were immobilized by chelation/metal-link processes onto porous inorganic carriers. The immobilized yeast cells displayed much higher sucrose hydrolyzing activities (90–517 U/g) than the bacterial, Z. mobilis, cells (0.76–1.65 U/g). The yeast cells chelated on hydrous metal oxide derivative of pumice stone presented higher initial -d-fructofuranosidase (invertase, EC 3.2.1.26) activity (161–517 U/g) than on other derivatives (90–201 U/g). The introduction of an organic bridge between the cells and the metal activator led to a decrease of the initial activity of the immobilized cells, however S. cerevisiae cells immobilized on the carbonyl derivative of titanium (IV) activated pumice stone, by covalent linkage, displayed a very stable behaviour, which in continuous operation at 30° C show only a slightly decrease on invertase activity for a two month period (half-life=470 days). The continuous hydrolysis of a 2% w/v sucrose solution at 30° C in an immobilized S. cerevisiae packed bed reactor was described by a simple kinetic model developed by the authors (Cabral et al., 1984a), which can also be used to predict the enzyme activity of the immobilized cells from conversion degree data. |
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