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ENZYME AND MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 9, Pages 672-679Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0229(00)00257-X
Keywords
xylanase; cellulase-free immobilized xylanase; Eudragit (TM); UV/Fluorescence/CD spectra of immobilized proteins; non-covalent immobilization of enzymes; water-soluble polymers
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The non-covalent immobilization of a commercial preparation of xylanase from A. niger was carried out on a reversibly soluble-insoluble enteric polymer Eudragit(TM) L-100. The immobilization of the xylanase activity by adsorption was simultaneously accompanied by removal of cellulase activity since the latter did not bind to the polymer. Thus, the soluble enzyme derivative may be useful for treatment of paper pulp bleaching in paper industry. The immobilized xylanase retained 60% of its activity toward xylan as the substrate. No change was observed in the pH optimum (5.5) of the enzyme upon immobilization. Only marginal increase in the K-m of the free enzyme (3.6 mg ml(-1) to 5.0 mg ml(-1)) upon immobilization on the soluble polymer reflected that the enzyme-substrate binding continues to be efficient in spite of the macromolecular nature of the substrate. Fluorescence spectroscopy and UV difference spectroscopy were used to probe the change(s) in the enzyme structure upon immobilization. This change in structure was correlated with the effcctiveness factor of the enzyme activity. CD spectra also showed that the enzyme undergoes drastic changes in the structure. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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