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Activity and stability of lipase from Candida Antarctica after treatment in pressurized fluids

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Lipase B from Candida antarctica (CalB) is one of the biocatalysts most used in organic synthesis due to its ability to act in several medium, wide substrate specificity and enantioselectivity, tolerance to non-aqueous environment, and resistance to thermal deactivation. Thus, the objective of this work was to treat CalB in supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and measure its activity before and after high-pressure treatment. Residual specific hydrolytic activities of 132% and 142% were observed when CalB was exposed to SC-CO2 at 35 ℃, 75 bar and 1 h and to LPG at 65 ℃, 30 bar and 1 h, respectively. Residual activity of the enzyme treated at high pressure was still above 100% until the 20th day of storage at low temperatures. There was no difference on the residual activity loss of CalB treated with LPG and stored at different temperatures over time. Greater difference was observed between CalB treated with CO2 and flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen (− 196 ℃) followed by storage in freezer (− 10 ℃) and CalB stored in freezer at − 10 ℃. Such findings encourage deeper studies on CalB as well as other enzymes behavior under different types of pressurized fluids aiming at industrial application.

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The authors thank to the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for funding.

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, analysis and investigation were performed by MCF, and IM, supervised by JVO, and MdiL The first draft of the manuscript was written by MCF., and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

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Feiten, M.C., Morigi, I., Di Luccio, M. et al. Activity and stability of lipase from Candida Antarctica after treatment in pressurized fluids. Biotechnol Lett 45, 287–298 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-022-03335-x

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