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Hertzberg S, Kvittingen L, Anthonsen T, et al. Alginate as immobilization matrix and stabilizing agent in a two-phase liquid system: application in lipase-catalysed reactions. Enzyme Microb Technol. 1992;14(1):42-7doi: 10.1016/0141-0229(92)90024-i.
Hertzberg, S., Kvittingen, L., Anthonsen, T., & Skjåk-Braek, G. (1992). Alginate as immobilization matrix and stabilizing agent in a two-phase liquid system: application in lipase-catalysed reactions. Enzyme and microbial technology, 14(1), 42-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/0141-0229(92)90024-i
Hertzberg, S, et al. "Alginate as immobilization matrix and stabilizing agent in a two-phase liquid system: application in lipase-catalysed reactions." Enzyme and microbial technology vol. 14,1 (1992): 42-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0141-0229(92)90024-i
Hertzberg S, Kvittingen L, Anthonsen T, Skjåk-Braek G. Alginate as immobilization matrix and stabilizing agent in a two-phase liquid system: application in lipase-catalysed reactions. Enzyme Microb Technol. 1992 Jan;14(1):42-7. doi: 10.1016/0141-0229(92)90024-i. PMID: 1367810.
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Enzyme Microb Technol. 1992 Jan;14(1):42-7. doi: 10.1016/0141-0229(92)90024-i.

Alginate as immobilization matrix and stabilizing agent in a two-phase liquid system: application in lipase-catalysed reactions.

Enzyme and microbial technology

S Hertzberg, L Kvittingen, T Anthonsen, G Skjåk-Braek

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  1. Division of Biotechnology, University of Trondheim, Norway.

PMID: 1367810 DOI: 10.1016/0141-0229(92)90024-i

Abstract

Alginate was evaluated as an immobilization matrix for enzyme-catalyzed reactions in organic solvents. In contrast to most hydrogels, calcium alginate was found to be stable in a range of organic solvents and to retain the enzyme inside the gel matrix. In hydrophobic solvents, the alginate gel (greater than 95% water) thus provided a stable, two-phase liquid system. The lipase from Candida cylindracea, after immobilization in alginate beads, catalysed esterification and transesterification in n-hexane under both batch and continuous-flow conditions. The operational stability of the lipase was markedly enhanced by alginate entrapment. In the esterification of butanoic acid with n-butanol, better results were obtained in the typical hydrophilic calcium alginate beads than in less hydrophilic matrices. The effects of substrate concentration, matrix area, and polarity of the substrate alcohols and of the organic solvent on the esterification activity were examined. The transesterification of octyl 2-bromopropanoate with ethanol was less efficient than that of ethyl 2-bromopropanoate with octanol. By using the hydrophilic alginate gel as an immobilization matrix in combination with a mobile hydrophobic phase, a two-phase liquid system was achieved with definite advantages for a continuous, enzyme-catalysed process.

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