Lipase hydration state in the gas phase: Sorption isotherm measurements and inverse gas chromatography.

The adsorption of water and substrate on immobilized Candida antarctica lipase B was studied by performing adsorption isotherm measurements and using Inverse Gas Chromatography (IGC). Water adsorption isotherm of the immobilized enzyme showed singular profile absorption incompatible with the BET mod...

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Main Authors: Zsuzsanna Marton, Ludovic Chaput, Guillaume Pierre, Marianne Graber
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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IGC
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.392.6891
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Summary:The adsorption of water and substrate on immobilized Candida antarctica lipase B was studied by performing adsorption isotherm measurements and using Inverse Gas Chromatography (IGC). Water adsorption isotherm of the immobilized enzyme showed singular profile absorption incompatible with the BET model, probably due to the hydrophobic nature of the support, leading to very low interactions with water. IGC allowed determining the evolution with aW of both dispersive surface energies and acidity and basicity constants of immobilized enzyme. These results showed that water molecules progressively hal-00786154, version 1- 7 Feb 2013 covered immobilized enzyme, when increasing aW, leading to a saturation of polar groups above aW 0.1 and full coverage of the surface above aW 0.25. IGC also enabled relevant experiments to be performed to investigate the behavior of substrates under aW that they will experience, in a competitive situation with water. Results indicated that substrates had to displace water molecules in order to adsorb on the enzyme from aW values between 0.1 to 0.2, depending on the substrate. As the conditions used for these adsorption studies resemble the ones of the continuous enzymatic solid/gas reactor, in which activity and selectivity of the