Journal
BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages 64-71Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2013.03.012
Keywords
Collagenase; Liquid-liquid extraction; Aqueous two-phase system; Purification; Penicillium aurantiogriseum; Collagen hydrolysis
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- CNPq
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Aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) of PEG/phosphate were used to recover collagenase from Penicillium aurantiogriseum from fermented broth. Experiments were carried out according to a 2(4)-full factorial design using the PEG molar mass (M-PEG), PEG concentration (C-PEG), phosphate concentration (C-PHOS) and pH as the independent variables, and the purification factor (PF), partition coefficient (K) and activity yield (Y) as the responses. All the responses increased in the top phase with increasing C-PEG and C-PHOS and decreasing M-PEG, but the maximum value of PF (5.23) was obtained at the lowest pH (6.0), that of Y (61.68%) and K (1.52) at the highest one (8.0). The electrophoretic profile revealed that some protein contaminants were removed by the ATPS, and the extracted collagenase exhibited optimum activity at pH 8.0 and 45 degrees C. The proposed ATPS appears to be a promising alternative to conventional first-step operations for direct recovery of collagenase from fermented broths, yielding a concentrate enzyme solution able to effectively hydrolyze collagen. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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