D-AMINO-ACID OXIDASE FROM TRIGONOPSIS-VARIABILIS - IMMOBILIZATION OF WHOLE CELLS IN NATURAL POLYMERIC GELS FOR GLUTARYL-7-AMINOCEPHALOSPORANIC ACID PRODUCTION
A. Dacunzo et al., D-AMINO-ACID OXIDASE FROM TRIGONOPSIS-VARIABILIS - IMMOBILIZATION OF WHOLE CELLS IN NATURAL POLYMERIC GELS FOR GLUTARYL-7-AMINOCEPHALOSPORANIC ACID PRODUCTION, Journal of fermentation and bioengineering, 81(2), 1996, pp. 138-142
The enzymatic oxidation of cephalosporin C to glutaryl-7-aminocephalos
poranic acid (glutaryl-7-ACA) was carried out utilizing permeabilized
whole cells of the yeast Trigonopsis variabilis entrapped in Ca-algina
te beads. The biomass, cultured in a rich medium containing nr-methion
ine and harvested after 72 h of growth, exhibited high levels of D-ami
no acid oxidase activity. Prior to use, the whole cells were permeabil
ized with four freeze-thawing cycles and immobilized in polysaccharide
matrices, such as Ca-alginate and x-carrageenan, and in an insolubili
zed gelatin gel. The best results in terms of activity yield and stora
ge stability were obtained with cells entrapped in Ca-alginate beads.
These cells were utilized for glutaryl-7-ACA production in a continuou
s stirred batch reactor (CSTR) and in a packed bed reactor working as
a plug flow reactor (PFR), using 50 mM cephalosporin C as substrate. T
he performances of the two systems were compared. The overall producti
vities (calculated on a void volume basis) were 1.64 g and 255 mg of g
lutaryl-7-ACA l(-1) h(-1) in the PFR and in the CSTR, respectively.