Cationic polyelectrolytes–lipases complexes formation as tool for recovery of these enzymes from their natural sources
2011
Bassani, Georgina | Farruggia, Beatriz | Picó, Guillermo
In the present paper the formation of complexes between positively charge polyelectrolyte (polyethyleneimine and chitosan) and Candida rugosa lipase from a crude extract and porcine lipase from pancreas commercial homogenate preparations were analyzed. The solubility of lipases–cationic polyelectrolytes formation was dependent on: polyelectrolyte densities electrical charge, polyelectrolyte and enzyme concentrations and salts present in the solution. The lipase was recovered from the non-soluble complex by adding of NaCl at a given pH. Although the polyelectrolytes did not affect lipase biological activity, both of them produced good enzyme recovery (>90%); however, purification factors were low. This methodology appears to be a good previous prepurification and concentration method, using, low-cost polymers, allows the design of a purification method where the protein of interest is present in a large volume with respect to the small amount of polyelectrolyte added.
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