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Preparation and application of polymer‐entrapped enzymes and microorganisms in microbial transformation processes with special reference to steroid 11‐β‐hydroxylation and Δ 1 ‐dehydrogenation
Author(s) -
Mosbach Klaus,
Larsson PerOlof
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
biotechnology and bioengineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1097-0290
pISSN - 0006-3592
DOI - 10.1002/bit.260120103
Subject(s) - dehydrogenation , hydroxylation , chemistry , steroid , enzyme , transformation (genetics) , polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis , biochemistry , polyacrylamide , biotransformation , chromatography , organic chemistry , catalysis , polymer chemistry , hormone , gene
Fungal cells from Curvularia lunata were entrapped in a crosslinked polyacrylamide gel. The gel‐cells obtained as granules were applied in the microbial transformation of Reichstein compound S leading to cortisol through an 11‐β‐hydroxylation step. Some kinetic studies of this conversion using gel‐cells were carried out. In addition, it was shown that gel‐cell granules which had lost part of their 11‐β‐hydroxylase activity on storage could be reactivated yielding preparations with increased activity. From Corynebacterium simplex a steroid dehydrogenase catalyzing the Δ 1 ‐ dehydrogenation of cortisol leading to prednisolone was isolated and partially purified. The preparation was entrapped in a crosslinked polyacrylamide gel and the gel‐enzyme granules obtained used in steroid dehydrogenation processes.