脂肪酶在微乳液和微乳液凝胶中催化辛酸辛醇的酯化反应

脂肪酶在合成反应中具有很高的区域选择性和立体选择性 ,已广泛用于食品工业和药物工业[1,2 ] ,在有机介质中的脂肪酶催化反应已有较多研究[3 ,4 ] 。微乳液一般由表面活性剂、助表面活性剂、油和水等组份组成 ,它是一种热力学稳定、光学透明、宏观均匀而微观不均匀的体系 ,能提供酶催化所需要的巨大油 /水界面[5] 。而将脂肪酶增溶于油包水(Ｗ /Ｏ)微乳液中的纳米级“水池”中 ,可使酶以分子水平分散[6] ,图 1(ａ) ,从而可用来模拟细胞微环境中的反应。油包水微乳液中的酶可通过加入明胶而制成固定化酶 ,含明胶的微乳液凝胶 (ＭＢＧｓ)最早…     

脂肪酶酶活性的最新研究

通过胶柬酶学对传统脂肪酶酶活性测定的改进,提出适合于油包水微乳液体系中脂肪酶酶活性测定的分光光度方法。与传统方法相比,本法克服了底物乳化液难配制,不稳定等缺点,无需在pH缓冲液体系中进行酸碱滴定。与有关文献中微乳液方法相比,本法采用不同的反应设备,选取了更廉价的检测试剂,缩短了实验时间。因而是一种值得推广的脂肪酶酶活检测方法。     

水稻花药发育过程中腺苷三磷酸酶的分布

水稻花粉母细胞中的ATP酶反应颗粒很少,主要分布在细胞核中。组成花药药壁的4层细胞中只有绒毡层细胞核中有较多的ATP酶。减数分裂后,绒毡层细胞质中分化出许多内质网片层,但ATP酶反应颗粒仍很少,其它3层药壁细胞中质膜ATP酶明显增加。在花粉内、外壁中形成了大量的ATP酶反应颗粒,但花粉外壁在小孢子时期形成,ATP酶反应颗粒来自绒毡层细胞的鸟氏体。花粉内壁在二胞花粉时期形成,其中的ATP酶反应颗粒来自花粉营养细胞。二胞花粉的营养细胞比生殖细胞含有更多的ATP酶反应颗粒。     

低共熔溶剂对酶的影响及应用研究*

低共熔溶剂是由一定化学计量比的氢键受体和氢键供体组合而成的新型绿色溶剂,具有成本低、易制备、环境友好等特点,可以作为普通有机溶剂和离子液体的替代溶剂。酶作为生物催化剂时反应条件温和,对反应底物专一性高,并且具有极高的催化效率和反应速度。酶促反应通常发生在水溶液体系,但近年来发现在低共熔溶剂中酶促反应也能有效进行。综述酶与低共熔溶剂共同作用的机理以及低共熔溶剂在酶促反应中的应用,展望未来的研究方向,为酶促反应体系的进一步开发奠定理论基础。     

生物化学课程中“酶”教学内容探讨与实践

"酶"教学内容包括酶的特性、酶促反应动力学及酶活性的调节。其中,酶促反应动力学需要运用数学和化学知识体系理解动力学公式;酶活性的调节机理又要运用生物学知识联系酶结构与功能之间的相互关系,课程内容复杂。本文探讨了"酶"教学内容和教学难点,通过教学改革,实施案例教学实践,以及结合互动式教学手段探讨"酶"教学实践,旨在提高生物化学课程的教学质量。     

多酶共固定化反应体系的研究进展

近年来,生物催化为化学、生物学和生物工程学等领域提供了一种绿色研究工具,其中多酶体系在这些领域中的应用越来越受到关注,其克服了以往单个酶不能满足催化需求的局限性,同时多酶共固定化在级联反应过程中,可增加酶周围的反应物浓度,并将不同酶的催化特性结合起来,能排除干扰因素,从而提高酶的整体催化效率。对多酶共固定化反应体系的研究进展进行了综述,包括多酶反应体系的类别、共固定化技术的特点以及相关应用,并对共固定化多酶反应体系进行了展望。     

酶反应速率方程的普适形式

酶反应速率方程的普适形式是应用于相互关联的大规模代谢途径动力学建模的重要方法.把酶反应速率方程写成Michaelis-Menten-King-Altman方程形式可以使得动力学参数(或函数)容易与数据库中的实验数据相接轨,并可以处理任意数量的底物和产物,有利于大规模的计算.普适形式可以同时描述正、负反应方向,并能精确地用于准稳态条件.展示了在三类生物体系中广泛存在的酶反应机制中普适方程的严格推导过程,并讨论了普适方程的特点,针对不可逆反应酶反应产生的产物抑制效应可以自然消除,总结了在普适速率方程中体现调节剂的作用和协同作用.     

木霉GXC产β-葡聚糖酶条件和酶学性质

研究了木霉GXC产β-葡聚糖酶的条件.结果表明,最适产酶碳源为麸皮,氮源为硫酸铵;产酶的最适条件为初始pH为4.0～5.0,30℃培养44h.粗酶液经硫酸铵沉淀、Sephadex G-25、Sephadex G-100和DEAE-Sehadex A-50柱层析得到纯β-葡聚糖酶,SDS-PAGE凝胶电泳显示一条带,测得分子量为35kD.该酶最适反应pH5.0,最适反应温度为60℃,在40℃以下、pH4.0～5.0酶活力相对稳定.5.0mmol/L以下的Ca2+、Zn2+和Fe2+,以及10.0mmol/L以下的Co2+对酶活力有激活作用;而Cu2+和Fe3+具有抑制作用.     

固定化细胞生产L—苹果酸动力学及两种酶反应器的比较

研究了产氨短杆菌ＭＡ－２,黄色短杆菌ＭＡ－３的固定化细胞在富马酸铵转化体系中生成Ｌ－苹果酸的动力学参数,同时比较了固定化细胞在填充床及连续机械搅拌反应器中酶转化反应的差异。研究结果表明：当转化率小于４０％时,酶反应在两种反应器所需的停留时间相当。随着转化率的提高,填充床反应器较连续机械搅拌反应器所需的停留时间短且不会因剪切力使固定化颗粒受到损伤,因此,在富马酸铵体系中用固定化酶生产Ｌ－苹果酸采用填     

反胶束中单宁酶的光学行为和稳定性

为了测定反胶束系统中单宁酶的光学行为和增溶方式,采用紫外分光光度法和荧光扫描技术对AOT水／异辛烷组成的反胶束体系中单宁酶和水相中单宁酶的光学行为进行研究,同时研究了不同反应体系中单宁酶的稳定性,并对单宁酶在反胶束体系中的增溶方式进行探讨。结果表明：反胶束体系与水相中的单宁酶,其光学行为存在很大差别。反胶束体系有利于单宁酶的稳定,脂肪醇作为反应底物,其碳链的增长有利于单宁酶在反胶束中的稳定性。单宁酶是以嵌入反胶束膜或与反胶束内膜接触的方式增溶的。     

General theory of determining intraparticle active immobilized enzyme distribution and rate parameters

A general theory is presented in this article for determining the intrinsic rate constants for the main reaction and deactivation reaction, the effective diffusivity of the substrate, and the active enzyme distribution within porous solid supports from deactivation study of a continuous stirred-basket reactor (CSBR). For the parallel deactivation five reaction kinetics are considered: (a) Michaelis-Menten, (b) substrate inhibition, (c) product inhibition (competitive), (d) product inhibition (anticompetitive), and (e) zero-order kinetics. The experimental results of the system of hydrogen-peroxide-immobilized catalase on controlled-pore glass particles are analyzed to demonstrate the application of the theory developed for parallel deactivation of active immobilized enzyme (IME). For series deactivation only first-order kinetics is treated, and a numerical procedure is proposed to deter mine the rate parameters and the internal active enzyme distribution. The experimental data of the system of glucose-immobilized glucose oxidase on silica-alumina and controlled-pore glass particles are used to verify the theory.     

Enhanced enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of l-methionine with ionic liquid additives

The low solubility of l-methionine and low activity of enzyme are the major hurdles during l-methionine production by the enzymatic conversion approach. In this study, we investigated various ionic liquids (ILs) as additives for the enzyme-catalyzed production of l-methionine from O-acetyl L-homoserine and methyl mercaptan. Among the ILs evaluated, we found that tetraalkylammonium hydroxide ILs enhanced the solubility of l-methionine as well as the activity of the enzyme. Methionine solubility decreased with increasing alkyl chain length but increased with increasing IL concentration. l-methionine could be dissolved up to 232 g/L in 10% tetramethylammonium hydroxide solution. The enzyme O-acetylhomoserine aminocarboxypropyltransferase reached its maximum activity when the IL concentration was 2.5% (3 times higher than that without ILs) and significantly decreased with increasing IL concentration. The stability of the enzyme also decreased rapidly after 2 h of incubation regardless of the presence or absence of ILs. Nevertheless, 74 g/L of l-methionine could be produced in a reaction media containing 2.5% tetraethylammonium hydroxide compared to 35 g/L of l-methionine obtained in a reaction system without ILs.     

A study on enzymatic reaction using a liquid emulsion membrane technique

An enzymatic reaction using a liquid emulsion membrane technique was studied to investigate the effects of some experimental variables on the stability of liquid membrane, enzyme deactivation, and transport of substrates and products. The hydrolysis of L-phenylalanine methyl ester by alpha-chymotrypsin was selected as a model reaction system. First, a transport mechanism for the substrates and products across the membrane was qualitatively identified. Second, it was found that the pH of the internal phase was one of the most important variables to determine the enzyme activity in a liquid membrane. Third, the effect of membrane phase which consists of surfactant, carrier, and organic solvent on the emulsion stability was investigated. It was found that the properties of the organic solvents greatly affect the emulsion stability. For an optimum condition, it was possible to reuse the emulsion which consists of membrane phase and internal phase without further separation. It was finally concluded that the enzyme in a liquid membrane retained 60% of its native activity in spite of vigorous mixing during the emulsification step.     

An on-line method for the collection and analysis of quasi-steady-state kinetic data for enzyme-catalyzed reactions.

A special mixing device for initiating enzyme-catalyzed reactions is used to rapidly achieve an unperturbed quasi-steady state. An on-line computer is employed to sample the initial conditions, the mixing time, and concentrations that change as a function of time during this quasi-steady state phase. A statistical method for estimating initial, quasi-steady state rates from the time course of the enzyme-catalyzed reaction is described. Practical considerations for using this parameter estimation system lead to the conclusion that for the enzyme-catalyzed reaction tested, the extent overall reaction should be above .2% for high initial substrate concentrations, and above 1% for initial substrate concentrations in the range of the Michaelis constant. Application of this method to a typical enzyme-catalyzed reaction suggests that objective estimates of initial rates from a given set of concentrations and corresponding times can be obtained with a standard error in the range of 2–3%, but that reproducibility is not better than about 10%. When this procedure was used to estimate initial rates for the glycerol dehydrogenase-catalyzed oxidation of glycerol by NAD, it was found that this enzyme did not behave according to the classical “Michaelis-Menten” mechanism of enzyme action.     

Use of stable emulsion to improve stability, activity, and enantioselectivity of lipase immobilized in a membrane reactor

The enantiocatalytic performance of immobilized lipase in an emulsion membrane reactor using stable emulsion prepared by membrane emulsification technology was studied. The production of optical pure (S)-naproxen from racemic naproxen methyl ester was used as a model reaction system. The O/W emulsion, containing the substrate in the organic phase, was fed to the enzyme membrane reactor from shell-to-lumen. The enzyme was immobilized in the sponge layer (shell side) of capillary polyamide membrane with 50 kDa cut-off. The aqueous phase was able to permeate through the membrane while the microemulsion was retained by the thin selective layer. Therefore, the substrate was kept in the enzyme-loaded membrane while the water-soluble product was continuously removed from the reaction site. The results show that lipase maintained stable activity during the entire operation time (more than 250 h), showing an enantiomeric excess (96 +/- 2%) comparable to the free enzyme (98 +/- 1%) and much higher compared to similar lipase-loaded membrane reactors used in two-separate phase systems (90%). The results demonstrate that immobilized enzymes can achieve high stability as well as high catalytic activity and enantioselectivity.     

Thermodynamically based solvent design for enzymatic saccharide acylation with hydroxycinnamic acids in non-conventional media

Enzyme-catalyzed synthesis has been widely studied with lipases (EC 3.1.1.3), but feruloyl esterases (FAEs; EC 3.1.1.73) may provide advantages such as higher substrate affinity and regioselectivity in the synthesis of hydroxycinnamate saccharide esters. These compounds are interesting because of their amphiphilicity and antioxidative potential. Synthetic reactions using mono- or disaccharides as one of the substrates may moreover direct new routes for biomass upgrading in the biorefinery. The paper reviews the available data for enzymatic hydroxycinnamate saccharide ester synthesis in organic solvent systems as well as other enzymatic hydroxycinnamate acylations in ionic liquid systems. The choice of solvent system is highly decisive for enzyme stability, selectivity, and reaction yields in these synthesis reactions. To increase the understanding of the reaction environment and to facilitate solvent screening as a crucial part of the reaction design, the review explores the use of activity coefficient models for describing these systems and - more importantly - the use of group contribution model UNIFAC and quantum chemistry based COSMO-RS for thermodynamic predictions and preliminary solvent screening. Surfactant-free microemulsions of a hydrocarbon, a polar alcohol, and water are interesting solvent systems because they accommodate different substrate and product solubilities and maintain enzyme stability. Ionic liquids may provide advantages as solvents in terms of increased substrate and product solubility, higher reactivity and selectivity, as well as tunable physicochemical properties, but their design should be carefully considered in relation to enzyme stability. The treatise shows that thermodynamic modeling tools for solvent design provide a new toolbox to design enzyme-catalyzed synthetic reactions from biomass sources.     

Enhanced enzymatic activity and stability of trypsin by reductive alkylation in solid phase

Amino groups of trypsin (EC 3.4.21.4) were reductively alkylated in solid phase to obtain a surface-active and biologically active enzyme in an o/w emulsion system. Trypsin adsorbed on a benzamidine-sepharose column was reductively alkylated with n-octanal in the presence of sodium borohydride, i.e., trypsin-C8. Activity of trypsin-C8 against Nalpha-benzoyl-L-arginine-p-nitroanilide was three times higher than that of native trypsin. Activities of trypsin and trypsin-C8 against casein were almost the same. After incubating the trypsin solution at 40 degrees C for 1 h, residual activities in the emulsion and solution systems were 64.2 and 57.4%, respectively. On the other hand, residual activities of native trypsin following incubation were 21.8% in the emulsion system and 33.2% in the solution system. Enhancement of trypsin-C8 stability in the emulsion system may derive from interaction between the hydrophobic areas of trypsin-C8 molecules and the hydrophobic phase of the emulsion.     

Rates Of Enzymic Reactions In Predominantly Organic, Low Water Systems

This article makes a quantitative assessment of the activity of enzymes in predominantly organic reaction mixtures of very low water content (and thermodynamic water activity significantly less than 1). This is done by attempting to relate reaction rates to those in systems of higher water content, although several factors make fair comparison difficult. However, it seems that rates with lipases in low water systems can sometimes be at least as high as when the same amount of enzyme catalyses the same reaction in a more traditional system. Rates are usually higher when the catalyst is dispersed on a support, rather than with simple dried particles of enzymes. Rates per unit weight of catalyst are rather similar, even when the amount of active enzyme varies widely, suggesting that physical factors may be limiting. Little data is available for enzymes other than lipases.     

Effect of N-linked glycosylation on glycopeptide and glycoprotein structure

Asparagine-linked glycosylation is an enzyme-catalyzed, co-translational protein modification reaction that has the capacity to influence either the protein folding process or the stability of the native glycoprotein conjugate. Advances in both glycoconjugate chemical synthesis and glycoprotein expression methods have increased the availability of these once elusive biopolymers. The application of spectroscopic methods to these proteins has begun to illuminate the various ways in which the saccharide affects the structure, function and stability of the proteins.     

Effect of N-linked glycosylation on glycopeptide and glycoprotein structure

Asparagine-linked glycosylation is an enzyme-catalyzed, co-translational protein modification reaction that has the capacity to influence either the protein folding process or the stability of the native glycoprotein conjugate. Advances in both glycoconjugate chemical synthesis and glycoprotein expression methods have increased the availability of these once elusive biopolymers. The application of spectroscopic methods to these proteins has begun to illuminate the various ways in which the saccharide affects the structure, function and stability of the proteins.