Produção de β-galactosidase por kluyveromyces lactis NRRL Y1564 em soro de leite e imobilização em quitosana

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Maria de Fátima Matos de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/4795
• topic: Engenharia química; Fermentação; Lactose; Enzimas; Íons; Reatores químicos

In this work, the enzyme β-galactosidase which catalyzes the hydrolysis of lactose to glucose and galactose, was produced by cultivating the micro-organism Kluyveromyces lactis NRRL Y1564 in whey supplemented with yeast extract. The enzyme is an intracellular metabolite, the release enzyme is very important, therefore were studied various chemical and mechanical methods of extraction and stirring with glass beads, sonication, addition of ethanol and toluene, noting also their effects on enzymatic activity. Subsequently, trials were carried out to study the influence of temperature (30, 34, 37 and 40 ° C) in the production of the enzyme from the cheese whey. In the enzyme extraction, using glass beads by a vórtex was more efficient method compared to others evaluated. The enzyme not presented inhibited or denatured when incubated with ethanol, toluene or ethanol-toluene. The optimum temperature for enzyme production by K. lactis NRRL Y1564 was 30 °C with enzymatic activity of 4418.37 U/g of cells at 12 h of fermentation. The enzyme produced was immobilized on chitosan 2.0% w/v. Different activation protocols using glutaraldehyde, epichlorohydrin or glycidol were evaluated. Was also studied, the contact time the enzyme-carrier (3, 5, and 10 hours) to obtain a biocatalyst to produce high yield, recovered activity and half-life in order to hydrolysis of lactose in batch reactor and fixed bed. The influence of temperature and pH on the hydrolysis of lactose was evaluated using as substrate a synthetic solution (lactose 5.0% (w/v) in potassium phosphate buffer 100 mM with 0.1 mM MnCl2) and skimmed milk containing 4.3% w/v lactose. The support shows better results in the parameters of immobilization was chitosan 2% actived with glutaraldehyde and contact time of 5 hours. The biocatalyst produced in this study showed a stability factor of 17.37 and a storage stability of 100% when stored at 4 °C for 90 days. Temperature optimum hydrolysis of lactose was 40 °C and the optimal pH 7.0. The conversion of lactose to 40 °C for this derivative (3.0 U/g) was on average 53% in 10 cycles (consecutive batches). In batch reactor, the conversion to glucose by the hydrolysis of lactose using synthetic solution was approximately 86% for the soluble enzyme (3.8 U/mL) and 83% of the immobilized enzyme (3.8 U/g). The conversion obtained in the hydrolysis of skim milk was 17% for the soluble enzyme and 20% for the immobilized enzyme.