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Carboxyl groups present on the outer face of the hexagonally ordered S-layer lattices from Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72 and Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum L111-69 were activated with carbodiimide. The reaction of the activated carboxyl groups with free amino groups of low molecular weight nucleophiles was controlled by labelling with polycationized ferritin, a net positively charged topographical marker for electron microscopy, which densely binds to S-layers possessing free carboxyl groups. Carbodiimide-activated carboxyl groups were also allowed to react with amino groups of ferritin (MW 440 000) and invertase (MW 270 000). Covalent attachment of ferritin was examined by electron microscopy. Using invertase, approximately 1 mg enzyme was bound per mg S-layer protein indicating a high packing density of invertase molecules on the outer face of the S-layer lattice. The immobilized invertase retained 70% of its original activity.
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Sára, M., Sleytr, U.B. Use of regularly structured bacterial cell envelope layers as matrix for the immobilization of macromolecules. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 30, 184–189 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00264009
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