Bidyut R Mohapatra, W Douglas Gould, Orlando Dinardo, Sankara Papavinasam, David W Koren, R Winston Revie
CANMET Materials Technology Laboratory, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Canada. bmohapat@uvic.ca
Preparative biochemistry & biotechnology 2008In order to determine the impact of immobilization on biocatalytic efficacy of sulfide oxidase, the kinetic and thermodynamic properties of native and DEAE-cellulose immobilized sulfide oxidase from Arthrobacter species FR-3 were evaluated. Immobilization increased the catalytic efficiency of sulfide oxidase by producing a lower Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) and a higher rate of catalysis (Vmax) at different temperatures. The first-order kinetic analysis of thermal denaturation demonstrated that the values of enthalpy (delta H*d) and entropy (delta S*d) of immobilized sulfide oxidase were lower than the native enzyme, confirming the thermal stabilization of sulfide oxidase by immobilization. The delta H*d and delta S*d of the immobilized enzyme at 35 degrees C were 138.07 kJ/mol and 122.04 J/K/mol, respectively. These results suggest that immobilization made the sulfide oxidase from Arthrobacter sp. FR-3 thermodynamically more efficient for catalysis of sulfide oxidation.
Bidyut R Mohapatra, W Douglas Gould, Orlando Dinardo, Sankara Papavinasam, David W Koren, R Winston Revie. Effect of immobilization on kinetic and thermodynamic characteristics of sulfide oxidase from Arthrobacter species. Preparative biochemistry & biotechnology. 2008;38(1):61-73
PMID: 18080911
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