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Ultrasound-assisted swelling of bacterial cellulose

Author(s): Song, J. ; Su, Jing ; Loureiro, Ana ; Sá, M. ; Cavaco-Paulo, Artur ; Kim, Hye Rim ; Silva, Carla

Date: 2017

Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/46659

Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho

Project/scholarship: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147337/PT; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/683356/EU;

Subject(s): Bacterial cellulose; PEG-FITC; Polymerization; Swelling; Ultrasound; Science & Technology


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Bacterial cellulose (BC) was obtained by static cultivation using commercial BC gel from scoby. BC membranes (oven dried and freeze-dried) were swelled with 8% NaOH, in absence and in presence of ultrasound (US), for 30, 60 and 90 min. The influence of swelling conditions on both physico-chemical properties and molecules entrapment was evaluated. Considering the highest levels of entrapment, an optimum swelling procedure was established: 8% NaOH for 30 min. at room temperature in the presence of US. Native and PEGylated laccase from Myceliophthora Thermophila was immobilized on BC membranes and a different catalytic behaviour was observed after immobilization. Native laccase presented activity values similar to published reports (5-7 U/gBC) after immobilization whereas PEGylated enzymes showed much lower activity (1-2 U/gBC). BC swelled membranes are presented herein as a potential support for the preparation of immobilized enzymes for industrial applications, like phenolics polymerization.

The authors would like to acknowledge Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI01-0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. The authors would like also to acknowledge the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which was funded by the Ministry of Education (2015R1D1A1A01060747). This work also received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement NMP-06-2015-683356 FOLSMART.

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Document Type Journal article
Language English
Contributor(s) Universidade do Minho
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