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Published on: July 9, 2015
Affinity-binding immobilization of D-amino acid oxidase on mesoporous silica by a silica-specific peptide
Miaomiao Wang1,2, Wenjing Qi1,2, Hongping Xu1,2
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Enzyme immobilization is widely used for large-scale industrial applications. However, the weak absorption through physical methods limits the recovery ability. Here, affinity-binding immobilization of enzymes was explored using a silica-specific affinity peptide (SAP) as a fusion tag to intensify the binding force between the enzyme and mesoporous silica (MPS) carrier. D-amino acid oxidase (DAAO) of Rhodosporidium toruloides was used as a model enzyme. The optimal screened SAP (LPHWHPHSHLQP) was selected from a M13 phage display peptide library and fused to the C-terminal of DAAO to obtain fused DAAOs with one, two and three SAP tags, respectively. The activity of DAAO-SAP-MPS was superior comparing with DAAO-2SAP-MPS and DAAO-3SAP-MPS; meanwhile DAAO-SAP-MPS shows 36% higher activity than that of DAAO-MPS. Fusion with one SAP improved the thermal stability with a 10% activity increase for immobilized DAAO-SAP-MPS compared to that of DAAO-MPS at 50 °C for 3 h. Moreover, the activity recovery of immobilized DAAO-SAP-MPS was 25% higher in operation stability assessment after six-batch conversions of cephalosporin to glutaryl-7-amino cephalosporanic acid than that of DAAO-MPS.
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