PMID- 21955507 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120207 LR - 20111024 IS - 1873-4367 (Electronic) IS - 0927-7765 (Linking) VI - 89 DP - 2012 Jan 1 TI - Improving immobilization of lipase onto magnetic microspheres with moderate hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity. PG - 73-8 LID - 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2011.08.031 [doi] AB - Magnetic microspheres with carboxyl groups were prepared by copolymerization of vinyl acetate (VAC), acrylamide (AM), and acrylic acid (AA) in the presence of oleic acid-coated Fe(3)O(4) nanoparticles. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) photo showed that the average diameter of magnetic microspheres was about 400 nm. Also, FTIR spectra analysis indicated that monomers were successfully enfolded on the microspheres' surface. They were used as support to immobilize lipase via physical adsorption and covalent binding. To investigate the effect of the microsphere surface properties on lipase immobilization, a series of microspheres with different hydrophobic/hydrophilic surface characteristics were prepared by adjusting molar percentages of different monomers. The results showed that microspheres with different hydrophobicities/hydrophilicities had different immobilized ratios and different activity recovery. Compared with microspheres having hydrophilic characteristics, that with hydrophobic characteristics had a much higher lipase binding efficiency. However, this study further demonstrated that moderate hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity of microsphere surface was very important for elevating activity recovery. When AM (hydrophilic monomer) held 14.3% of total amount of monomers, the activity recovery was the highest (reaching 87%, 418 U/g support). Possible reasons for these observations were discussed and a supposed mechanism was speculated. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Zhang, Dong-Hao AU - Zhang DH AD - College of Pharmacy, Hebei University, Baoding, China. zhangdonghao1@gmail.com FAU - Yuwen, Li-Xia AU - Yuwen LX FAU - Xie, Yu-Lei AU - Xie YL FAU - Li, Wei AU - Li W FAU - Li, Xiao-Bing AU - Li XB LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110914 PL - Netherlands TA - Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces JT - Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces JID - 9315133 RN - 0 (Enzymes, Immobilized) RN - EC 3.1.1.3 (Lipase) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Enzymes, Immobilized/*metabolism MH - Lipase/*metabolism MH - *Magnetics MH - *Microspheres MH - Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared EDAT- 2011/10/01 06:00 MHDA- 2012/02/09 06:00 CRDT- 2011/09/30 06:00 PHST- 2011/06/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/08/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2011/08/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/09/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/10/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/02/09 06:00 [medline] AID - S0927-7765(11)00519-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2011.08.031 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces. 2012 Jan 1;89:73-8. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2011.08.031. Epub 2011 Sep 14.