Preparation and immobilization of inulinase
AssigneeStamicarbon B.V.
InventorsPeter J. H. Peters, Pieter L. Kerkhoofs
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Abstract
Enzyme preparations are obtained from Aspergillus phoenicis having high inulinase activity, a very low Michaelis constant, thermal stability, optimum inulinase activity across a wide pH range, and little sensitivity to heavy metal ion inhibition. The enzyme may be immobilized on an organic macroporous polymer or in an alginate gel.
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An inulinase-active enzyme preparation having insensitivity to heavy metal ion inhibition obtained by:
- (a) culturing an Aspergillus phoenicis mold culture for a period of several days under aerobic conditions in an aqueous medium containing a biologically assimilable nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus source and including inulin, at a pH of at least 4.0 up to about 7.0 and at a temperature of about 20.degree. C. to about 40.degree. C., and
- (b) recovering the inulinase-active enzyme solution thereby produced.
An immobilized water-insoluble inulinase-active enzyme preparation having insensitivity to heavy metal ion inhibition obtained by:
- (a) culturing an Aspergillus phoenicis mold culture for a period of several days under aerobic conditions in an aqueous medium containing a biologically assimilable nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus source and including inulin at a pH of at least 4.0 up to about 7.0 and at a temperature of about 20.degree. C. to about 40.degree. C.;
- (b) thereafter recovering the inulinase-active enzyme solution which is thereby formed;
- (c) forming a reaction suspension of a resin in said enzyme solution, wherein said resin is obtained by reacting an organic macroporous polymer containing amino groups, hydroxyl groups or combinations thereof with glutardialdehyde, to adsorb said enzyme on said resin and thereby obtain an immobilized enzyme;
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- (d) thereafter recovering said immobilized enzyme from said suspension.
An immobilized inulinase-active enzyme composition having insensitivity to heavy metal ion inhibition prepared by:
- (a) culturing an Aspergillus phoenicis mold culture for a period of several days under aerobic conditions in an aqueous medium containing a biologically assimilable nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus source and including inulin at a pH of at least 4.0 up to about 7.0 and at a temperature of about 20.degree. C. to about 40.degree. C.;
- (b) thereafter recovering the inulinase-active enzyme solution which is thereby formed;
- (c) admixing said enzyme solution with an alginate solution and gelling the alginate to produce an alginate gel containing the enzyme immobilized therein;
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- (d) thereafter recovering said immobilized enzyme composition which is thereby formed.
A process for obtaining an inulinase-active enzyme preparation having insensitivity to heavy metal ion inhibition by culturing a microorganism and recovering the inulinaseenzyme consisting essentially in the combination of steps of:
- (a) culturing an Aspergillus phoenicis mold culture for a period of several days under aerobic conditions in an aqueous medium containing a biologically assimilable nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus source and including inulin at a pH of at least 4.0 up to about 7.0 and at a temperature of about 20.degree. C. to about 40.degree. C.;
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- (b) thereafter recovering the inulinase-active enzyme solution which is thereby formed.
A process for obtaining an immobilized water-insoluble inulinase-activity enzyme composition having insensitivity to heavy metal ion inhibition, consisting essentially in the combination of steps of:
- (a) culturing an Aspergillus phoenicis mold culture for a period of several days under aerobic conditions in an aqueous medium containing a bioligically assimilable nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus source and including inulin at a pH of at least 4.0 up to about 7.0 and at a temperature of about 20.degree. C. to about 40.degree. C.;
- (b) thereafter recovering the inulinase-active enzyme solution which is thereby formed;
- (c) forming a reaction suspension of a resin in said enzyme solution, wherein said resin is obtained by reacting an organic macroporous polymer containing amino groups, hydroxyl groups or combinations thereof with glutardialdehyde, to adsorb said enzyme on said resin and thereby obtain an immobilized enzyme;
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- (d) thereafter recovering said immobilized enzyme from said suspension.
In a process for hydrolyzing inulin with an immobilized inulinase-active enzyme preparation having insensitivity to heavy metal ion inhibition, the improvement consisting essentially in the combination of steps of:
- (a) culturing an Aspergillus phoenicis mold culture for a period of several days under aerobic conditions in an aqueous medium containing a biologically assimable nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus source and including inulin at a pH of at least 4.0 up to about 7.0 and at a temperature of about 20.degree. C. to about 40.degree. C.;
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- (b) recovering the inulinase-active enzyme solution which is thereby formed;
- (c) forming an immobilized water-insoluble inulinase-active enzyme preparation from said enzyme solution;
- (d) preparing an inulin containing solution;
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- (e) hydrolyzing the inulin in said inulin-containing solution with said immobilized enzyme preparation at a pH between 4 and 6 and at a temperature between 20.degree. C. and 65.degree. C. and at an inulin concentration in said inulin-containing solution of between about 5% to about 30% by weight based on the substrate solution.
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