The objective of this work is investigation of the adsorption and decomposition of Reactive Blue 19 from industrial wastewaters using laccase enzyme immobilized on activated carbon powder and fiber as adsorbent. Time, pH, temperature, stirring rate, the amount of the adsorbent, dye initial concentration, solution flow rate in the column and column height were studied as key operating parame...

It has been argued that a substrate-induced conformational change involving the orientation of catalytic groups cannot affect the specificity for two substrates in an enzymatic system where the chemical step is rate limiting, because such an induced fit would alter the catalytic efficiency for both to an equal extent. To the contrary, the generalized induced-fit treatment described here shows t...

Background Trichoderma reesei is considered a candidate fungal enzyme producer for the economic saccharification of cellulosic biomass. However, performance of the saccharifying enzymes produced by T. reesei is insufficient. Therefore, many attempts have been made to improve its performance by heterologous protein expression. In this study, to increase the conversion efficiency of alkaline-pret...

In the present study, we investigated the ability of an immobilized phospholipase A1 (PLA1) in degumming of soybean oil. The enzyme was immobilized by simple adsorption on bentonite without any further modification. The free and immobilized PLA1 were characterized by Fourier Transform InfraRed (FT-IR) spectroscopy and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). The immobilizat...

Bioelectrocatalysis is a phenomenon concerned with biological catalysts, which accelerate the electrochemical reactions. Bioelectrocatalysis has been widely explored by the research community in various directions. Enzymes can catalyze different chemical reactions in living organisms by enzymes as the most important biological catalysts. These enzymatic biocatalysts are commercially available a...

This work describes the biocatalytic amidation of l -proline with ammonia, resulting in a process optimized atom efficiency giving prolinamide an optically pure form (ee >99%). Detailed enzyme and reaction engineering studies are provided.

Enzymes are capable of unique and selective transformations that can enable efficient chemical production. While many industrial processes have been developed using free enzymes in aqueous solutions, immobilizing on a solid support offer considerable advantages, including improved reaction efficiency, enzyme stability, the ability to perform reactions non-aqueous media, simplified separation pr...

In this study, Aspergillus niger lipase after extraction of medium culture was precipitated with different percentages of acetone and purified by ion exchange chromatography using SP-sepharose HP and Q-sepharose HP. The process of purification of the anzyme was studied by electrophoresis and the molecular weight was detected and determined by Zymography using overlying containing phenol red and...

The performance of biofuel cells (BFCs) depends on the number electrons that can be harvested from one fuel molecule by bioanode, as well many other factors. Regular, one-enzyme bioanodes usually harvest two per molecule, lowering conversion efficiency chemical energy stored in to electrical energy. In this study, we successfully develop a high-performance BFC with two-enzyme bioanode four oxid...

We designed a three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical pore structure to improve the current production efficiency and stability of direct electron transfer-type biocathodes. The 3D hierarchical electrode structure was fabricated using a MgO-templated porous carbon framework produced from two MgO templates with sizes of 40 and 150 nm. The results revealed that the optimal pore composition for a bili...