Extracellular Lipase (extracellular + lipase)

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Biodegradation of poly(tetramethylene succinate-cotetramethylene abdicate) and poly(tetramethylene succinate) through water-soluble products

ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY & CHEMISTRY, Issue 5 2001
Eiichi Kitakuni
Abstract Poly(tetramethylene succinate-co-tetramethylene adipate) (PBSA) and poly(tetramethylenesuccinate) (PBS) were hydrolyzed experimentally into water-soluble oligomers and monomers by Chromobacterium extracellular lipase. The oligomers were identified by high-performance liquid chromatography,mass spectrometry and 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance, which indicated that a total of 28 oligomer species were liberated from PBSA, and that 13 of them were identical to the hydrolysates from PBS. Moreover, 20 of the species were polyester-based compounds of monomer units, and the other 8 species were small amounts of diurethane compounds. Bis(hydroxybutyl) succinate (BSB) and bis(hydroxybutyl) hexamethylene dicarbamate (BHB) were the typical oligomers and were chemically synthesized. Biodegradability of BSB and BHB was examined for 28 d in the activated sludge, and analysis of the results of this study indicated that the final conversion rate of constituent carbon to carbon dioxide was estimated at 80 mol% for BSB and 10 mol% for BHB. The remaining amount of carbon in the undegraded BHB was 20 mol%. In the presence of BSB, the biodegradability of BHB was increased by about 1.5 times. The suggestion was made that BSB induced a growth of microorganisms and helped BHB degradation. This is consistent with the observation that the biodegradation of BHB in native soil for 60 d reached > 60%. [source]


Properties of poly(AAc- co -HPMA- cl -EGDMA) hydrogel-bound lipase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa MTCC-4713 and its use in synthesis of methyl acrylate

JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, Issue 1 2007
Shamsher Singh Kanwar
Abstract Microbial lipases (E.C. 3.1.1.3) are preferred biocatalysts for the synthesis of esters in organic solvents. Various extracellular thermoalkaliphilic lipases have been reported from Pseudomonas sp. In the present study, a purified alkaline thermoalkalophilic extracellular lipase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa MTCC-4713 was efficiently immobilized onto a synthetic poly(AAc- co -HPMA- cl -EGDMA) hydrogel by adsorption and the bound lipase was evaluated for its hydrolytic potential towards various p -nitrophenyl acyl esters varying in their C-chain lengths. The bound lipase showed optimal hydrolytic activity towards p -nitrophenyl palmitate (p -NPP) at pH 8.5 and temperature 45°C. The hydrolytic activity of the hydrogel-bound lipase was markedly enhanced by the presence of Hg2+, Fe3+, and NH salt ions in that order. The hydrogel-immobilized lipase (25 mg) was used to perform esterification in various n -alkane(s) that resulted in , 84.9 mM of methyl acrylate at 45°C in n -heptane under shaking (120 rpm) after 6 h, when methanol and acrylic acid were used in a ratio of 100 mM:100 mM, respectively. Addition of a molecular sieve (3Å × 1.5 mm) to the reaction system at a concentration of 100 mg/reaction vol (1 mL) resulted in a moderate enhancement in conversion of reactants into methyl acrylate (85.6 mM). During the repetitive esterification under optimum conditions, the hydrogel-bound lipase produced 71.3 mM of ester after 10th cycle of reuse. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 104: 183,191, 2007 [source]


Improvement of Yarrowia lipolytica lipase production by fed-batch fermentation

JOURNAL OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGY, Issue 2 2009
Patrick Fickers
Abstract Two different types of fed-batch fermentation were investigated to improve production yields of the Lip2 extracellular lipase in Y. lipolytica mutant-strain LgX64.81 grown in a 20l bioreactor. Compare to batch cultures, culture feeding with the complete medium led to a 2-fold increased lipase production (2016 ± 76 U ml,1) whereas addition of a combination of glucose and olive oil led to a 3-fold increase. The high level of lipase production obtained on glucose media with Y. lipolytica LgX64.81 could be related to its phenotype i.e. a lower sensibility to glucose catabolite repression due to a modification in the level of HXK1 expression. (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source]


Evaluation of a novel Bacillus strain from a north-western Spain hot spring as a source of extracellular thermostable lipase

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY, Issue 10 2009
Francisco J. Deive
Abstract BACKGROUND: Thermophilic microorganisms are receiving significant attention as a source of useful thermostable enzymes. However, the number of known strains is still limited, and very often their most interesting biocatalysts are intracellular or membrane-bound and produced at low levels. Thus, the isolation and study of novel extracellular enzyme-producing thermophilic microorganisms is very interesting. Moreover, the assessment of bioreactor performance is crucial, given the scarce information on the large-scale culture of these strains. RESULTS: The production of a thermostable extracellular lipase in submerged cultures of a thermophilic microorganism, recently isolated in north-west Spain, was investigated. The strain was identified by 16S rDNA sequencing as belonging to genus Bacillus. The influence of operating variables (i.e. pH, temperature, aeration) on lipase biosynthesis was analysed. Enzyme production at bioreactor scale was investigated, special attention being paid to the effect of aeration and agitation rates. CONCLUSION: The best conditions for the studied process were determined in shake flasks as pH 7.0, 55 °C and high aeration levels. Also, the non-association between lipase production and cell growth was ascertained. The culture of this novel strain was successfully carried out in laboratory-scale bioreactors, thus proving its potential for further applications. Copyright © 2009 Society of Chemical Industry [source]


Characterization of covalently inhibited extracellular lipase from Streptomyces rimosus by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization quadrupole ion trap reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometry: localization of the active site serine,

JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (INCORP BIOLOGICAL MASS SPECTROMETRY), Issue 12 2004
Martin Zehl
Abstract A chemical modification approach combined with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry was used to identify the active site serine residue of an extracellular lipase from Streptomyces rimosus R6-554W. The lipase, purified from a high-level overexpressing strain, was covalently modified by incubation with 3,4-dichloroisocoumarin, a general mechanism-based serine protease inhibitor. MALDI time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry was used to probe the nature of the intact inhibitor-modified lipase and to clarify the mechanism of lipase inhibition by 3,4-dichloroisocoumarin. The stoichiometry of the inhibition reaction revealed that specifically one molecule of inhibitor was bound to the lipase. The MALDI matrix 2,6-dihydroxyacetophenone facilitated the formation of highly abundant [M + 2H]2+ ions with good resolution compared to other matrices in a linear TOF instrument. This allowed the detection of two different inhibitor-modified lipase species. Exact localization of the modified amino acid residue was accomplished by tryptic digestion followed by low-energy collision-induced dissociation peptide sequencing of the detected 2-(carboxychloromethyl)benzoylated peptide by means of a MALDI quadrupole ion trap reflectron TOF instrument. The high sequence coverage obtained by this approach allowed the confirmation of the site specificity of the inhibition reaction and the unambiguous identification of the serine at position 10 as the nucleophilic amino acid residue in the active site of the enzyme. This result is in agreement with the previously obtained data from multiple sequence alignment of S. rimosus lipase with different esterases, which indicated that this enzyme exhibits a characteristic Gly-Asp-Ser-(Leu) motif located close to the N-terminus and is harboring the catalytically active serine residue. Therefore, this study experimentally proves the classification of the S. rimosus lipase as GDS(L) lipolytic enzyme. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]