Tailoring the interfacial microenvironment of magnetic metal-organic frameworks using amino-acid-based ionic liquids for lipase immobilization

Int J Biol Macromol. 2024 May;268(Pt 1):131500. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131500. Epub 2024 Apr 12.

Abstract

Modifying the carrier interface is a promising method to improve the microenvironment of immobilized enzymes and enhance their activity and stability. In this work, using proline as amino acid, magnetic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) were modified with an amino-acid-based ionic liquid (AAIL) with two hydroxyl groups followed by adsorption of porcine pancreatic lipase (PPL). The activity recovery of the prepared immobilized lipase (MMOF-AAIL/PPL) was up to 162 % higher than that of MMOF-PPL (70.8 %). The Michaelis constant of MMOF-AAIL/PPL was 0.0742 mM lower than that of MMOF-PPL, but the catalytic efficiency was 0.0223 min-1 which was higher than MMOF-PPL. Furthermore, MMOF-AAIL/PPL maintained 85.6 % residual activity after stored for 40 days and its residual activity was 71.9 % while that for MMOF-PPL was 58.8 % after incubated in 6 M urea for 2 h. Particularly, after ten consecutive cycles, the residual activity of MMOF-AAIL/PPL still reached 84.4 %. In addition, the magnetic properties of the support facilitate the separation process which improves the utilization efficiency of immobilized enzymes.

Keywords: Biological catalysis; Ionic liquids; Lipase immobilization; Magnetic MOFs; Proline.

MeSH terms

  • Adsorption
  • Amino Acids* / chemistry
  • Animals
  • Enzyme Stability*
  • Enzymes, Immobilized* / chemistry
  • Enzymes, Immobilized* / metabolism
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Ionic Liquids* / chemistry
  • Kinetics
  • Lipase* / chemistry
  • Lipase* / metabolism
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks* / chemistry
  • Swine