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Chemically Modified Lipase from Thermomyces lanuginosus with Enhanced Esterification and Transesterification Activities
Noro, Jennifer,Cavaco-Paulo, Artur,Silva, Carla
, p. 4524 - 4531 (2021/09/02)
Lipase from Thermomyces lanuginosus is one of the most explored enzymes for the esterification of several added-value industrial compounds, such as biodiesel, fragrances, and flavors. Its selectivity in these reactions is mostly related with its activity towards small alcohols. In this work, the impact of the chemical modification, with 4 dodecyl chains at its surface, was evaluated regarding its transesterification and esterification activities, comparing with the native form. Linear size-differentiated alcohols (from 1 to 20 carbons in the aliphatic chain) were used to explore for the first time the effect of the chain length in both transesterification and esterification reactions, using p-nitrophenyl palmitate and oleic acid as model compounds, respectively. The chemically modified lipase showed an outstanding improvement of its catalytic performance than the native enzyme, being this increase directly proportional to the size of the alcohols chain used as substrates. The enormous potential and remarkable versatility of this novel super catalyst was here demonstrated, where diverse types of esters, differing in their potential applications (biodiesel, cosmetics, fine chemistry), were efficiently synthesized. The produced esters were fully characterized by 1H NMR, GC-MS, and FTIR.
Causes of unreproducibility of C. rugosa Lipase-catalyzed reactions in slightly hydrated organic media
Dominguez De Maria, Pablo,Sinisterra Gago, Jose V.
, p. 8555 - 8566 (2007/10/03)
Lipase activity, measured as hydrolysis of tributyrin is a valid assay to quantify the lipase activity of a lyophilized crude lipase in hydrolysis reactions but it is not useful to predict the catalytic activity in lipase- catalyzed reactions in organic media. Three factors control the catalytic activity in these media: i) relative proportion of isoenzymes; ii) amount of water in the lyophilized crude enzyme and iii) amount of lipase protein in the commercial powder. Thus we propose two simple reaction tests: i) heptyl oleate synthesis (specific of lipases), ii) enantioselective esterification of (R) or (S) 2-(3-benzoyl)phenyl propionic acid. This methodology is applied to different crude lipases of Candida rugosa, obtained in different fermenter conditions and shows the origin of the unreproducibility of the synthetic data.
