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Unraveling Entropic Rate Acceleration Induced by Solvent Dynamics in Membrane Enzymes
Published on: January 16, 2016
A simplified calculation method applied to enzyme inactivation during drying
J K Liou1, K C Luyben, S Bruin
1Department of Process Engineering, Agricultural University Wageningen, De Dreyen 12, 6703 BC Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Abstract:
An approximate method for solving the nonlinear diffusion problem in the case of a power-function variation of the diffusion coefficient with concentration has been applied to a drying process with simultaneous enzyme inactivation. Experimental results obtained by air drying of soybean lipoxygenase entrapped in a glucose calcium-alginate gel are in good agreement with the predicted behavior, whereas hardly any differences occur between the results obtained with the approximate method and those obtained by a numerical solution of the original model.
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