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| Author(s): |
Tales Alexandre da Costa e Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2010-11-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Suraia Said;
Daniel Sivieri Cordeiro;
Luis Henrique Souza Guimarães
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| Advisor: | Suraia Said |
| Abstract | |
Lipases are enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of triacylglycerols to fatty acids, mono and diacylglycerols, and glycerol. In contrast to esterases, lipases are activated only when they are adsorbed to an oilwater interface. They have been widely used in many industrial processes such as organic chemical, detergent and cleaning formulations and in products like cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. The main concern in the production of commercial enzymes is to protect their stability in aqueous solution. Water facilitates or mediates a variety of physical and chemical degradation pathways, active during protein purification, shipping and storage. Consequently, dry solid formulations are developed to achieve an acceptable protein shelf life. Spray drying is commonly used as a dehydration technique in the pharmaceutical industry for making powdery products directly from the liquid. In the present work, the purification and biochemical characterization of lipases produced by endophytic fungus Cercospora kikuchii as well as the effects of adjuvants on the spray drying process of theses enzymes were studied. The crude lipase was purified to homogeneity by hydrophobic interaction chromatography and gel filtration. The lipase purified was 5.54-fold with 9% recovery and the specific activity was 223.6. The molecular mass of the lipase was estimated to be 65.1 kDa using SDS-PAGE and 73.5 using gel filtration chromatography, indicating that the lipase is a monomer. The lipase demonstrated an optimum pH at 4.6, an optimum temperature of 35°C. About 80.2% of its activity was retained after incubation at 40°C for 2 hours. The Vmax and Km were 10.28 mol/min/mg protein and 0.03240 mM, respectively, using pNPP as substrate. The lipases present in crude extract and the mycelium-bound lipases were characterized in order to evaluate the potential for use in biocatalysis. The crude extract showed maximum activity at 60ºC and pH 6.2 while the myceliumbound lipases showed maximum activity at 50ºC and pH 5.4. In tests of the temperature effect on the enzymatic activity, the lipases in the crude extract was stable at 50°C, with 85.3% residual activity after 2 hours of incubation. The mycelium-bound lipases maintained at least 75.1% of residual activity after 2 h incubation at 80°C. These results show that the lipases of C. kikuchii have kinetic properties and stability characteristics suitable to applications in biocatalysis. The lipases present in crude extract were spray dried with different adjuvants, and their stability was evaluated. The recovery of the enzyme after drying with 10% of lactose, -cyclodextrin, maltodextrin, mannitol, gum arabic, and trehalose ranged from 63% to 100%; but the enzyme activity was lost in the absence of adjuvants. Most of the adjuvants used kept up at least 50% of the enzymatic activity at 5°C and 40% at 25°C after 8 months. The lipase dried with 10% of -cyclodextrin retained 72% of activity at 5°C. From these preliminary results the optimization of drying process using -cyclodextrin, maltodextrin and lactose as adjuvants was carried out. Statistical optimization of the experimental results allowed the determination of the processing conditions that maximized the retention of the enzymatic activity (RAE), namely: concentration of drying adjuvants of 12.05 %, inlet temperature of the drying gas of 153.6oC, and flow rate of the enzymatic extract fed to the dryer of 9.36 g/min, for the b-cyclodextrin and maltodextrin as adjuvants. For lactose as adjuvant the study showed that increasing the amount of drying adjuvant and/or decreasing the inlet gas temperature has positive effect on the retention of enzymatic activity of the dried product. After the purification process was carried out the drying of the partially purified enzyme and pure lipase, using these three adjuvants. The retention of enzymatic activity ranged from 90.6 to 100% when was used the optimal conditions for each drying adjuvant. Concluding, the lipases produced by C. kikuchii may be efficiently spray dried since its activity enzimatic was retained in crude extract, pure lipase and in semi-purified lipase after drying. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/52732-7 - Biochemical characterization and spray drying of lipases produced by the endophytic fungus Cercospora kicuchii |
| Grantee: | Tales Alexandre da Costa e Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |