Journal
PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 44, Issue 9, Pages 963-968Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2009.04.015
Keywords
Thermomyces lanuginosus lipase; Enzyme immobilization; Enzyme stabilization; Glyoxyl agarose; Chemical amination; Multipoint covalent attachment
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- Spanish CICYT [BIO-2005-8576]
- CAM [S0505/PPQ/0344]
- CAPES (Brazil)
- The Spanish MEC
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This paper describes the immobilization and stabilization of the lipase from Thermomyces lanuginosus (TLL) on glyoxyl agarose. Enzymes attach to this support only by the reaction between several aldehyde groups of the support and several Lys residues on the external surface of the enzyme molecules at pH 10. However, this standard immobilization procedure is unsuitable for TLL lipase due to the low stability of TLL at pH 10 and its low content on Lys groups that makes that the immobilization process was quite slow. The chemical amination of TLL, after reversible immobilization on hydrophobic supports, has been shown to be a simple and efficient way to improve the multipoint covalent attachment of this enzyme. The modification enriches the enzyme surface in primary amino groups with low pKb, thus allowing the immobilization of the enzyme at lower pH values. The aminated enzyme was rapidly immobilized at pH 9 and 10, with activities recovery of approximately 70%. The immobilization of the chemically modified enzyme improved its stability by 5-fold when compared to the non-modified enzyme during thermal inactivation and by hundreds of times when the enzyme was inactivated in the presence of organic solvents, being both glyoxyl preparations more stable than the enzyme immobilized on bromocyanogen. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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