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A novel immobilized biocatalyst with invertase activity was prepared by adhesion of yeast cells to wool using glutaraldehyde. Yeast cells could be immobilized onto wool by treating either the yeast cells or wool or both with glutaraldehyde. Immobilized cells were not desorbed by washing with 1 M KCl or 0.1 M buffers, pH 3.5–7.5. The biocatalyst shows a maximum enzyme activity when immobilized at pH 4.2–4.6 and 7.5–8.0. The immobilized biocatalyst was tested in a tubular fixed-bed reactor to investigate its possible application for continuous full-scale sucrose hydrolysis. The influence of temperature, sugar concentration and flow rate on the productivity of the reactor and on the specific productivity of the biocatalyst was studied. The system demonstrates a very good productivity at a temperature of 70 °C and a sugar concentration of 2.0 M. The increase of the volume of the biocatalyst layer exponentially increases the productivity. The productivity of the immobilized biocatalyst decreases no more than 50% during 60 days of continuous work at 70 °C and 2.0 M sucrose, but during the first 30 days it remains constant. The cumulative biocatalyst productivity for 60 days was 4.8 × 103kg inverted sucrose/kg biocatalyst. The biocatalyst was proved to be fully capable of continuous sucrose hydrolysis in fixed-bed reactors.
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Received: 8 November 1996 / Received revision: 31 January 1997 / Accepted: 31 January 1997
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Krastanov, A. Continuous sucrose hydrolysis by yeast cells immobilized to wool. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 47, 476–481 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002530050959
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