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Huang J, Dai S, Chen X, Xu L, Yan J, Yang M, Yan Y. Alteration of Chain-Length Selectivity and Thermostability of Rhizopus oryzae Lipase via Virtual Saturation Mutagenesis Coupled with Disulfide Bond Design. Appl Environ Microbiol 2023; 89:e0187822. [PMID: 36602359 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01878-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Rhizopus oryzae lipase (ROL) is one of the most important enzymes used in the food, biofuel, and pharmaceutical industries. However, the highly demanding conditions of industrial processes can reduce its stability and activity. To seek a feasible method to improve both the catalytic activity and the thermostability of this lipase, first, the structure of ROL was divided into catalytic and noncatalytic regions by identifying critical amino acids in the crevice-like binding pocket. Second, a mutant screening library aimed at improvement of ROL catalytic performance by virtual saturation mutagenesis of residues in the catalytic region was constructed based on Rosetta's Cartesian_ddg protocol. A double mutant, E265V/S267W (with an E-to-V change at residue 265 and an S-to-W change at residue 267), with markedly improved catalytic activity toward diverse chain-length fatty acid esters was identified. Then, computational design of disulfide bonds was conducted for the noncatalytic amino acids of E265V/S267W, and two potential disulfide bonds, S61C-S115C and E190C-E238C, were identified as candidates. Experimental data validated that the variant E265V/S267W/S61C-S115C/E190C-E238C had superior stability, with an increase of 8.5°C in the melting temperature and a half-life of 31.7 min at 60°C, 4.2-fold longer than that of the wild-type enzyme. Moreover, the variant improved the lipase activity toward five 4-nitrophenyl esters by 1.5 to 3.8 times, exhibiting a potential to modify the catalytic efficiency. IMPORTANCE Rhizopus oryzae lipase (ROL) is very attractive in biotechnology and industry as a safe and environmentally friendly biocatalyst. Functional expression of ROL in Escherichia coli facilitates effective high-throughput screening for positive variants. This work highlights a method to improve both selectivity and thermostability based on a combination of virtual saturation mutagenesis in the substrate pocket and disulfide bond prediction in the noncatalytic region. Using the method, ROL thermostability and activity to diverse 4-nitrophenyl esters could be substantially improved. The strategy of rational introduction of multiple mutations in different functional domains of the enzyme is a great prospect in the modification of biocatalysts.
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López-Fernández J, Dolors Benaiges M, Valero F. Second- and third-generation biodiesel production with immobilised recombinant Rhizopus oryzae lipase: Influence of the support, substrate acidity and bioprocess scale-up. Bioresour Technol 2021; 334:125233. [PMID: 33990020 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Revised: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Rhizopus oryzae lipase immobilised onto differently functionalised polymethacrylate (Purolite®) and magnetite superparamagnetic supports was assessed as a catalyst for biodiesel production with pomace oil. The presence of surface hydrocarbon chains increased the operational stability of the biocatalysts supported on Purolite® and superparamagnetic particles up to 9 and 2 times, respectively. By contrast, the presence of functional groups had no effect on the initial transesterification rate, which was twice higher with the lipase immobilised onto Purolite®. Also, functionalising Purolite® with epoxide and octadecyl groups led to the highest biodiesel and volumetric productivity. This biocatalyst with other substrates including makauba, jatropha, waste cooking oil, and microbial oil, led to similar initial reaction rates. However, simply raising substrate acidity from 0.5 to 2% increased the operational stability of the biocatalysts 15 times. A synergistic effect between acyl-acceptor concentration and substrate acidity was observed. The transesterification reaction was successfully scaled up to 50 mL.
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- Josu López-Fernández
- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain.
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Jiao L, Zhou Q, Su Z, Yan Y. Efficient Heterologous Production of Rhizopus oryzae Lipase via Optimization of Multiple Expression-Related Helper Proteins. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E3372. [PMID: 30373304 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19113372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2018] [Revised: 10/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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This study is dedicated to efficiently produce Rhizopus oryzae lipase (ROL) by optimizing the expression of multiple expression-related helper proteins in Pichia pastoris. A series of engineered strains harboring different copy numbers of the ROL gene and different copies of the chaperone Pdi gene were first constructed to examine the influence of Pdi gene copy number on ROL production. The results showed that multiple copies of Pdi gene did not significantly improve ROL expression. Then, the effect of the co-overexpression of 10 expression-related helper proteins on ROL secretion was investigated by screening 20 colonies of each transformants. The data from shaking-flask fermentation suggested that Ssa4, Bmh2, Sso2, Pdi, Bip, Hac1, and VHb had positive effects on ROL expression. Subsequently, Ssa4, Bmh2, and Sso2, which all participate in vesicular trafficking and strongly promote ROL expression, were combined to further improve ROL production level. ROL activity of the screened strain GS115/5ROL-Ssa4-Sso2-Bmh2 4# attained 5230 U/mL. Furthermore, when the helper proteins Pdi, Bip, Hac1, and VHb were individually co-expressed with ROL in the strain GS115/5ROL-Ssa4-Sso2-Bmh2 4#, lipase activity increased to 5650 U/mL in the strain GS115/5ROL-Ssa4-Sso2-Bmh2-VHb 9#. Additionally, the maximum ROL activity of 41,700 U/mL was achieved in a 3 L bioreactor for high-density fermentation via a sorbitol–methanol co-feeding strategy, reaching almost twofold the value of the initial strain GS115/pAOα-5ROL 11#. Thus, the strategies in this study significantly increased ROL expression level, which is of great potential for the large-scale production of ROL in P. pastoris.
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Jiao L, Zhou Q, Su Z, Xu L, Yan Y. High-level extracellular production of Rhizopus oryzae lipase in Pichia pastoris via a strategy combining optimization of gene-copy number with co-expression of ERAD-related proteins. Protein Expr Purif 2018; 147:1-12. [PMID: 29452270 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2018.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Revised: 01/04/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Rhizopus oryzae lipase (ROL) is an important industrial enzyme limited in application due to its low production in native strains. Here, we used a new combined strategy to overexpress ROL in Pichia pastoris. An efficient method based on bio-brick was developed to construct a series of vectors harboring different copy numbers of ROL gene cassettes, which were then transformed into P. pastoris GS115 to generate a strain with specific copy numbers of ROL. An optimized gene-dosage recombinant strain of GS115/pAOα-5ROL 11# harboring five copies of ROL was screened, revealing production of the highest activity (2700 U/mL), which was 8-fold higher than that of the strain harboring one copy. The activity of GS115/pAOα-5ROL 11# was then enhanced to 3080 U/mL in a shaking flask under optimized culture conditions. Subsequently, the endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein-degradation-related genes Ubc1 or/and Hrd1 were co-expressed with ROL to further increase ROL expression. The activities of the recombinant strains, GS115/5ROL-Ubc1 22#, -Hrd1 15#, and -Hrd1-Ubc1 1#, were 4000 U/mL, 4200 U/mL, and 4750 U/mL, which was 29.9%, 36.4%, and 54.2% higher, respectively, than that observed in GS115/pAOα-5ROL 11#. Using the combined strategy, ROL expression was improved 15.8-fold, with maximum GS115/5ROL-Hrd1-Ubc1 1# activity reaching 33,900 U/mL via a sorbitol/methanol co-feeding strategy in a 3-L fermenter and resulting in a 1.65-, 1.26-, and 1.14-fold enhancement relative to the activities observed in strains GS115/pAOα-5ROL 11#, GS115/5ROL-Ubc1 22#, and GS115/5ROL-Hrd1 15#, respectively. These results indicated that heterologous overexpression of ROL in P. pastoris using this combined strategy is feasible for large-scale industrialization.
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- Liangcheng Jiao
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China.
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Zhang Y, Gu H, Shi H, Wang F, Li X. Green Synthesis of Conjugated Linoleic Acids from Plant Oils Using a Novel Synergistic Catalytic System. J Agric Food Chem 2017; 65:5322-5329. [PMID: 28470063 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b00846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A novel and efficient method has been developed for converting plant oil into a specific conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) using a synergistic biocatalytic system based on immobilized Propionibacterium acnes isomerase (PAI) and Rhizopus oryzae lipase (ROL). PAI exhibited the greatest catalytic activity when immobilized on D301R anion-exchange resin under optimal conditions (PAI dosage of 12 410 U of PAI/g of D301R, glutaraldehyde concentration of 0.4%, and reaction conditions of pH 7.0, 25 °C, and 60 min). Up to 109 g/L trans-10,cis-12-CLA was obtained after incubation of 200 g/L sunflower oil with PAI (1659 U/g of oil) and ROL (625 mU/g of oil) at pH 7.0 and 35 °C for 36 h; the corresponding conversion ratio of linoleic acid (LA) to CLA was 90.5%. This method exhibited the highest proportion of trans-10,cis-12-CLA yet reported and is a promising method for large-scale production.
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- Yu Zhang
- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, §College of Chemical Engineering, and ∥Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomass-Based Green Fuels and Chemicals, Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing, Jiangsu 210037, People's Republic of China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, §College of Chemical Engineering, and ∥Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomass-Based Green Fuels and Chemicals, Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing, Jiangsu 210037, People's Republic of China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, §College of Chemical Engineering, and ∥Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomass-Based Green Fuels and Chemicals, Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing, Jiangsu 210037, People's Republic of China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, §College of Chemical Engineering, and ∥Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomass-Based Green Fuels and Chemicals, Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing, Jiangsu 210037, People's Republic of China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, §College of Chemical Engineering, and ∥Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomass-Based Green Fuels and Chemicals, Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing, Jiangsu 210037, People's Republic of China
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Rodrigues J, Canet A, Rivera I, Osório NM, Sandoval G, Valero F, Ferreira-Dias S. Biodiesel production from crude Jatropha oil catalyzed by non-commercial immobilized heterologous Rhizopus oryzae and Carica papaya lipases. Bioresour Technol 2016; 213:88-95. [PMID: 26980626 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2015] [Revised: 02/28/2016] [Accepted: 03/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of biodiesel production by transesterification of Jatropha oil with methanol, catalyzed by non-commercial sn-1,3-regioselective lipases. Using these lipases, fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) and monoacylglycerols are produced, avoiding the formation of glycerol as byproduct. Heterologous Rhizopus oryzae lipase (rROL) immobilized on different synthetic resins and Carica papaya lipase (rCPL) immobilized on Lewatit VP OC 1600 were tested. Reactions were performed at 30°C, with seven stepwise methanol additions. For all biocatalysts, 51-65% FAME (theoretical maximum=67%, w/w) was obtained after 4h transesterification. Stability tests were performed in 8 or 10 successive 4h-batches, either with or without rehydration of the biocatalyst between each two consecutive batches. Activity loss was much faster when biocatalysts were rehydrated. For rROL, half-life times varied from 16 to 579h. rROL on Lewatit VPOC 1600 was more stable than for rCPL on the same support.
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- J Rodrigues
- Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, LEAF, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Departament d'Enginyeria Quimica, Biològica i Ambiental (EE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología y Diseño del Estado de Jalisco (CIATEJ), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, LEAF, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Centro de Investigación y Asistencia en Tecnología y Diseño del Estado de Jalisco (CIATEJ), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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- Departament d'Enginyeria Quimica, Biològica i Ambiental (EE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, LEAF, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Cámara E, Albiol J, Ferrer P. Droplet digital PCR-aided screening and characterization of Pichia pastoris multiple gene copy strains. Biotechnol Bioeng 2016; 113:1542-51. [PMID: 26704939 DOI: 10.1002/bit.25916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2015] [Revised: 12/18/2015] [Accepted: 12/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Pichia (syn. Komagataella) pastoris is a widely used yeast platform for heterologous protein production. Expression cassettes are usually stably integrated into the genome of this host via homologous recombination. Although increasing gene dosage is a powerful strategy to improve recombinant protein production, an excess in the number of gene copies often leads to decreased product yields and increased metabolic burden, particularly for secreted proteins. We have constructed a series of strains harboring different copy numbers of a Rhizopus oryzae lipase gene (ROL), aiming to find the optimum gene dosage for secreted Rol production. In order to accurately determine ROL gene dosage, we implemented a novel protocol based on droplet digital PCR (ddPCR), and cross validated it with conventional real-time PCR. Gene copy number determination based on ddPCR allowed for an accurate ranking of transformants according to their ROL gene dosage. Results indicated that ddPCR was particularly superior at lower gene dosages (one to five copies) over quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR). This facilitated the determination of the optimal ROL gene dosage as low as two copies. The ranking of ROL gene dosage versus Rol yield was consistent at both small scale and bioreactor chemostat cultures, thereby easing clone characterization in terms of gene dosage dependent physiological effects, which could be discriminated even among strains differing by only one ROL copy. A selected two-copy strain showed twofold increase in Rol specific production in a chemostat culture over the single copy strain. Conversely, strains harboring more than two copies of the ROL gene showed decreased product and biomass yields, as well as altered substrate consumption specific rates, compared to the reference (one-copy) strain. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2016;113: 1542-1551. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Elena Cámara
- Department of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Escola d'Enginyeria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Escola d'Enginyeria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Escola d'Enginyeria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Catalonia, Spain.
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Duarte SH, Hernández GLDP, Canet A, Benaiges MD, Maugeri F, Valero F. Enzymatic biodiesel synthesis from yeast oil using immobilized recombinant Rhizopus oryzae lipase. Bioresour Technol 2015; 183:175-180. [PMID: 25731926 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.01.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Revised: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 01/31/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The recombinant Rhizopus oryzae lipase (1-3 positional selective), immobilized on Relizyme OD403, has been applied to the production of biodiesel using single cell oil from Candida sp. LEB-M3 growing on glycerol from biodiesel process. The composition of microbial oil is quite similar in terms of saponifiable lipids than olive oil, although with a higher amount of saturated fatty acids. The reaction was carried out in a solvent system, and n-hexane showed the best performance in terms of yield and easy recovery. The strategy selected for acyl acceptor addition was a stepwise methanol addition using crude and neutralized single cell oil, olive oil and oleic acid as substrates. A FAMEs yield of 40.6% was obtained with microbial oils lower than olive oil 54.3%. Finally in terms of stability, only a lost about 30% after 6 reutilizations were achieved.
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- Susan Hartwig Duarte
- Laboratory of Bioprocess Engineering, Faculty of Food Engineering - UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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- Laboratory of Bioprocess Engineering, Faculty of Food Engineering - UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
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Ortega-Requena S, Gómez JL, Bastida J, Máximo F, Montiel MC, Murcia MD. Study of different reaction schemes for the enzymatic synthesis of polyglycerol polyricinoleate. J Sci Food Agric 2014; 94:2308-2316. [PMID: 24403129 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.6559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2013] [Revised: 11/20/2013] [Accepted: 01/08/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Different strategies for the solvent-free enzymatic production of polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR) were explored in an attempt to simplify and improve the process. Besides the conventional procedure (obtaining polyricinoleic acid, followed by its esterification with polyglycerol), two alternative methods are proposed: (1) reversing the synthesis order, i.e. esterification of polyglycerol with ricinoleic acid and then the condensation of ricinoleic acid with the previously obtained polyglycerol ester; and (2) the enzymatic synthesis of PGPR in a single-step process. RESULTS The reaction sequences were carried out in an open-air reactor with free and immobilised lipases (triacylglycerol acylhydrolases, E.C. 3.1.1.3): Candida rugosa lipase to obtain polyricinoleic acid and Rhizopus oryzae lipase for the esterification of polyglycerol with the carboxyl group of ricinoleic or polyricinoleic acid. A co-immobilised derivative containing both lipases was used to catalyse the single-stage scheme. The three processes were carried out in a vacuum reactor, obtaining in every case PGPR that complied with the legal specifications of the European Community and recommendations provided in the Food Chemical Codex. CONCLUSION The results demonstrate that all three protocols are viable for the enzymatic synthesis of PGPR and require similar reaction times. The single-stage scheme is easier to carry out.
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- Salvadora Ortega-Requena
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30071, Murcia, Spain
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