Laccase encapsulation in chitosan nanoparticles enhances the protein stability against microbial degradation

Abstract

A novel concept with the result of enzyme stabilization against microbial degradation in real bioremediation processes was developed through the encapsulation of laccase in chitosan nanoparticles. Besides of abundant information on laccase-chitosan conjugates, we report the laccase encapsulation into nanoparticles based in chitosan. The chitosan-tripolyphosphate technique was applied for the production of morphologically homogeneous enzymatic nanoparticles, with high enzyme encapsulation efficiency, small asymmetric sizes (from 40 to 90 nm), and rough surfaces. Contrary to macroscopic immobilized enzymes, temperature and pH activity profiles of nano-sized laccase were similar to those of free enzyme. The substrate affinity constant (K M) of nano-encapsulated laccase was similar to these from free enzyme, while its activity rate constant (k cat) represented 60 % of these obtained with free enzyme. Importantly, stability of nano-encapsulated laccase against microbial degradation in soil, compost, and wastewater was significantly increased. After 24 h exposure to wastewater from a treatment plant, the laccase activity of the nanoparticles was 82.8 % of initial activity, compared with only 7.8 % retained activity for free enzyme. After 36 h incubation in compost extract, the laccase nanoparticles showed 72.4 % of the initial activity, while the free enzyme was almost completely inactivated. Finally, after 84 h incubation in soil extract, the nanoparticles and free preparations showed 57.9 and 17.3 % of the initial activity, respectively. Thus, the nanoencapsulation of enzymes able to transform pollutants is an alternative to improve the operational lifetime of enzymes in real environmental applications.

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