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Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol.96, No.4, 623-630, 2007
Co-immobilization of different enzyme activities to non-woven polyester surfaces
Co-immobilization was applied to combine complementary enzyme reactions. Therefore, trypsin was co-immobilized together with both, lipase and alpha-amylase, onto the surface of non-woven polyester material. The progress of the immobolization reaction was directly monitored by inveatigating covalent fixation of the enzymes to the polyester flees using H-1 MAS-NMR. Co-immobilization of the different types of enzymes to the polyester support showed retained enzymatic activity. However, a competition of binding to the support was observed. Increasing amounts of one type of enzyme reduced the degree of immobilization for the other type. In order to investigate the distribution of trypsin and alpha-amylase on the polyester support, the flees was treated with a mixture of rhodamine isothiocynate labeled with anti-trypsin antibodies and fluorescein isothiocynate labeled with anti-alpha-amylase antibodies. Using fluorescene microscopy, the co-immobilization was analysed by selective excitation of both chromophores at 480 and 530 nm, respectively. In addition, fluorescene spectroscopy was applied by direct labeling of trypsin and lipase prior to co-immobilization to the polyester support. A special prism of plexiglass was constructed, which fit into a 10 x 10 mm fluorescence cuvette in that way that a diagonal plane was formed within the cuvette. The non-woven support was fixed in the cuvette and fluorescence spectra were obtained to characterize the amount of different enzymes linked to the support. Using FRET it was demonstrated that a uniform distribution of the various enzyme species was achieved, where the different enzyme activities are bound on the support in close neighborhood to one another.