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Immobilization of a protease, Flavourzyme, by covalent binding on various carriers was investigated. Lewatit R258-K, activated with glutaraldehyde, was selected among the tested carriers, because of the highest immobilized enzyme activity. The optimization of activation and immobilization conditions was performed to obtain high recovery yield. The activity recovery decreased with increasing carrier loading over an optimal value, indicating the inactivation of enzymes by their reaction with uncoupled aldehyde groups of carriers. The buffer concentrations for carrier activation and enzyme immobilization were optimally selected as 500 and 50 mM, respectively. With increasing enzyme loading, the immobilized enzyme activity increased, but activity recovery decreased. Immobilization with a highly concentrated enzyme solution was advantageous for both the immobilized enzyme activity and activity recovery. Consequently, the optimum enzyme and carrier loadings for the immobilization of Flavourzyme were determined as 1.8 mg enzyme/mL and 0.6 g resin/mL, respectively.
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Chae, H.J., In, MJ. & Kim, E.Y. Optimization of protease immobilization by covalent binding using glutaraldehyde. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 73, 195–204 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02785655
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