ARE ASSOCIATED IONS IMPORTANT FOR BIOCATALYSIS IN ORGANIC MEDIA

被引:3
作者
BLACKWOOD, AD
MOORE, BD
HALLING, PJ
机构
[1] UNIV STRATHCLYDE,DEPT CHEM,GLASGOW G1 1XL,SCOTLAND
[2] UNIV STRATHCLYDE,DEPT BIOSCI & BIOTECHNOL,GLASGOW G1 1XL,SCOTLAND
来源
BIOCATALYSIS | 1994年 / 9卷 / 1-4期
关键词
SUBTILISIN CARLSBERG; ORGANIC SOLVENT; IMMOBILIZATION; COUNTERIONS;
D O I
10.3109/10242429408992126
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The nature of the buffer species used in the drying process is important when lyophilized enzyme preparations are suspended in organic media. The activity of subtilisin Carlsberg in a transesterification reaction was found to vary depending on the nature of the buffer used. It was postulated that the large excess of salt present in the dried powder could be affecting enzymatic activity by alterations to the microscopic structure of the powder. To establish if this were true, microscopic changes were eliminated by covalently immobilising the enzyme onto a macroporous polymer support so that the counter-ions could be exchanged by washing with dilute salt solutions. It was found that in the immobilised samples no significant effects of salt ions were noted. This was the case even when salt ions were in considerable excess of that needed to balance protein charges. Hence the activity variations noted in freeze-dried powders are probably due to changes to the microscopic structure, rather than to molecular scale interactions. Similarly the previously observed activating effect of crown ether solutions on freeze-dried powders is not repeated on an immobilised preparation suggesting that this too may be due to a microscopic effect on the powder.
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页数:8
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