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Electron Beam-Induced Immobilization of Laccase on Porous Supports for Waste Water Treatment Applications

The versatile oxidase enzyme laccase was immobilized on porous supports such as polymer membranes and cryogels with a view of using such biocatalysts in bioreactors aiming at the degradation of environmental pollutants in wastewater. Besides a large surface area for supporting the biocatalyst, the a...

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Autores principales: Jahangiri, Elham, Reichelt, Senta, Thomas, Isabell, Hausmann, Kristin, Schlosser, Dietmar, Schulze, Agnes
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6270853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25111026
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules190811860
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author Jahangiri, Elham
Reichelt, Senta
Thomas, Isabell
Hausmann, Kristin
Schlosser, Dietmar
Schulze, Agnes
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Thomas, Isabell
Hausmann, Kristin
Schlosser, Dietmar
Schulze, Agnes
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description The versatile oxidase enzyme laccase was immobilized on porous supports such as polymer membranes and cryogels with a view of using such biocatalysts in bioreactors aiming at the degradation of environmental pollutants in wastewater. Besides a large surface area for supporting the biocatalyst, the aforementioned porous systems also offer the possibility for simultaneous filtration applications in wastewater treatment. Herein a “green” water-based, initiator-free, and straightforward route to highly reactive membrane and cryogel-based bioreactors is presented, where laccase was immobilized onto the porous polymer supports using a water-based electron beam-initiated grafting reaction. In a second approach, the laccase redox mediators 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) (ABTS) and syringaldehyde were cross-linked instead of the enzyme via electron irradiation in a frozen aqueous poly(acrylate) mixture in a one pot set-up, yielding a mechanical stable macroporous cryogel with interconnected pores ranging from 10 to 50 µm in size. The membranes as well as the cryogels were characterized regarding their morphology, chemical composition, and catalytic activity. The reactivity towards waste- water pollutants was demonstrated by the degradation of the model compound bisphenol A (BPA). Both membrane- and cryogel-immobilized laccase remained highly active after electron beam irradiation. Apparent specific BPA removal rates were higher for cryogel- than for membrane-immobilized and free laccase, whereas membrane-immobilized laccase was more stable with respect to maintenance of enzymatic activity and prevention of enzyme leakage from the carrier than cryogel-immobilized laccase. Cryogel-immobilized redox mediators remained functional in accelerating the laccase-catalyzed BPA degradation, and especially ABTS was found to act more efficiently in immobilized than in freely dissolved state.
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spelling pubmed-62708532018-12-27 Electron Beam-Induced Immobilization of Laccase on Porous Supports for Waste Water Treatment Applications Jahangiri, Elham Reichelt, Senta Thomas, Isabell Hausmann, Kristin Schlosser, Dietmar Schulze, Agnes Molecules Article The versatile oxidase enzyme laccase was immobilized on porous supports such as polymer membranes and cryogels with a view of using such biocatalysts in bioreactors aiming at the degradation of environmental pollutants in wastewater. Besides a large surface area for supporting the biocatalyst, the aforementioned porous systems also offer the possibility for simultaneous filtration applications in wastewater treatment. Herein a “green” water-based, initiator-free, and straightforward route to highly reactive membrane and cryogel-based bioreactors is presented, where laccase was immobilized onto the porous polymer supports using a water-based electron beam-initiated grafting reaction. In a second approach, the laccase redox mediators 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) (ABTS) and syringaldehyde were cross-linked instead of the enzyme via electron irradiation in a frozen aqueous poly(acrylate) mixture in a one pot set-up, yielding a mechanical stable macroporous cryogel with interconnected pores ranging from 10 to 50 µm in size. The membranes as well as the cryogels were characterized regarding their morphology, chemical composition, and catalytic activity. The reactivity towards waste- water pollutants was demonstrated by the degradation of the model compound bisphenol A (BPA). Both membrane- and cryogel-immobilized laccase remained highly active after electron beam irradiation. Apparent specific BPA removal rates were higher for cryogel- than for membrane-immobilized and free laccase, whereas membrane-immobilized laccase was more stable with respect to maintenance of enzymatic activity and prevention of enzyme leakage from the carrier than cryogel-immobilized laccase. Cryogel-immobilized redox mediators remained functional in accelerating the laccase-catalyzed BPA degradation, and especially ABTS was found to act more efficiently in immobilized than in freely dissolved state. MDPI 2014-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6270853/ /pubmed/25111026 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules190811860 Text en © 2014 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Hausmann, Kristin
Schlosser, Dietmar
Schulze, Agnes
Electron Beam-Induced Immobilization of Laccase on Porous Supports for Waste Water Treatment Applications
title Electron Beam-Induced Immobilization of Laccase on Porous Supports for Waste Water Treatment Applications
title_full Electron Beam-Induced Immobilization of Laccase on Porous Supports for Waste Water Treatment Applications
title_fullStr Electron Beam-Induced Immobilization of Laccase on Porous Supports for Waste Water Treatment Applications
title_full_unstemmed Electron Beam-Induced Immobilization of Laccase on Porous Supports for Waste Water Treatment Applications
title_short Electron Beam-Induced Immobilization of Laccase on Porous Supports for Waste Water Treatment Applications
title_sort electron beam-induced immobilization of laccase on porous supports for waste water treatment applications
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6270853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25111026
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules190811860
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