Bacillus licheniformis L-arabinose isomerase (BLAI) with a broad pH range, high substrate specificity, and high catalytic efficiency for L-arabinose was immobilized on various supports. Eupergit C, activated-carboxymethylcellulose, CNBr-activated agarose, chitosan, and alginate were tested as supports, and Eupergit C was selected as the most effective. After determination of the optimum enzyme ...

Immobilization is the method of entrapping/attaching the microbial or plant cells in a suitable matrix. Different methods such as encapsulation, gel entrapment, covalent bonding, cross linking and adsorption is carried out to prepare immobilized cells. When compared to enzyme immobilization, cell immobilization is regarded as a convenient method because of its low cost and improved stability. T...

This paper reports on a novel and efficient β-glucosidase immobilization method using magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles as a carrier. Based on response surface methodology, the optimal immobilization conditions obtained were: glutaraldehyde (GA) concentration, 0.20%; enzyme concentration, 50.25 μg/mL; cross-linking time, 2.21 h; and the maximum activity recovery reached 89.35%. The magnetic immobili...

Background Candida rugosa Lipase (CRL) shows a very low alkaline stability that comprises its immobilization on glyoxyl-agarose, which requires pH above 10. In this way, an adaptation from the original method was used; an enzyme solution at pH 7 was slowly added at a suspension of glyoxyl-agarose prepared in bicarbonate buffer, pH 10. This change of protocol was enough for allowing the preparat...

Biodiesel is one alternative energy that might be promising to substitute the petroleum-based fuel due its biodegradability and less toxic level. Biodiesel can synthesized through non-alcohol route by substituting alcohol with methyl acetate using lipase enzyme as Biocatalyst, which may give by-product during reaction. In this research, from Bacillus subtilis ha...

Recently, the application of lipase enzyme as biocatalyst in conversion waste cooking oil (WCO) to free fatty acids and glycerol has been trending well. Therefore, present study attempts use WCO which is found abundance Malaysia substrate for halal microbial can be exploited food industry. The workability conversion, however suffers severely due potential denaturation extended reaction time. Th...