title: Enhancement of activity of cross-linked enzyme aggregates by a sugar-assisted precipitation strategy: technical development and molecular mechanism.
abstract: The precipitation of enzyme causes the major activity loss in the conventional protocol for CLEAs preparation. Herein, a sugar-assisted strategy was developed to minimize the activity loss in the step of enzyme precipitation by adding sugar as the stabilizer, which contributed to improve the activity yield of resulting CLEAs. Penicillin G acylase (PGA) was employed as a model enzyme. The effects of glucose, sucrose and trehalose on the activity yields of CLEAs were investigated. The highest activity was obtained in the case of adding trehalose. Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy showed that the polar microenvironment and the secondary structure of native enzyme were preserved to some extent when PGA was prepared as sugar-assisted CLEAs, resulting in PGA's higher activity than sugar-free CLEAs. Scanning electron microscope revealed the different inner morphologies, and the kinetic studies showed the higher affinity and resist-inhibition capacity of sugar-assisted CLEAs. Furthermore, stability experiments demonstrated that CLEAs prepared in sugar-assisted strategy remained higher thermal stability when it was incubated at high temperature.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Research Center, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, PR China.
authors.forename: Mengfan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Chenxi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Yufei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Rongxin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Zhimin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D011232:Chemical Precipitation; D004795:Enzyme Stability / Q000187:drug effects; D004800:Enzymes, Immobilized / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007700:Kinetics; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010399:Penicillin Amidase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D013395:Sucrose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014199:Trehalose / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D004800:Enzymes, Immobilized; D013395:Sucrose; D014199:Trehalose; D010399:Penicillin Amidase; D005947:Glucose