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Chitosan from Syncephalastrum racemosum used as a film support
for lipase immobilization
R.V.S. Amorim a,b,*, E.S. Melo a, M.G. Carneiro-da-Cunha a, W.M. Ledingham a,G.M. Campos-Takaki c
a Laboratoorio de Imunopatologia Keizo Asami––LIKA and Departamento de Bioquıımica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco-UFPE,
Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitaaria, 50670-901 Recife, PE, Brazil b Departamento de Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal da Paraııba––UFPB, Campus I––Cidade Universitaaria,
58051-900, Jo~aao Pessoa, PB, Brazil c N uucleo de Pesquisas em Ci ̂eencias Ambientais––NPCIAMB and Departamento de Quıımica, Universidade Catoolica de Pernambuco––UNICAP,
Recife, PE, Brazil
Received 2 April 2001; received in revised form 12 September 2002; accepted 11 January 2003
Abstract
Chitosan from a native Mucoralean strain, Syncephalastrum racemosum, isolated from herbivorous dung (Northeast-Brazil), was
used as a film support for lipase immobilization. S. racemosum showed highest chitosan yield (152 mg g dry mycelia weightÀ1; 15.2%
of dry mycelia weight) among the nine strains screened, which presented 89% DD-glucosamine. A chitosan film was used for lipase
(EC 3.1.1.3) immobilization using glutaraldehyde as a bifunctional agent. The immobilized lipase retained 47% (12.6 lmolsÀ1 mÀ2)
of its initial catalytic activity after four cycles of reaction. This result is comparable (same order of magnitude) to that of the enzyme
immobilized on film made from commercially available crustacean chitosan.
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Keywords: Chitosan; Mucoralean; Film; Immobilization; Lipase
1. Introduction
Chitosan, a cationic biopolymer consisting of (1,4)-
linked 2-amino-deoxy-b-DD-glucan, is a deacetylated
derivative from chitin, the second most abundant poly-
saccharide in nature. It has been described as occurring
in the cell wall of some fungi, particularly in the Zygo-
mycetes (Miyoshi et al., 1992; Tan et al., 1996).
Commercially available chitosan is obtained from
crustacea and has been used in a wide variety of appli-cations. Its membrane has several uses including food
processing, protein purification, and skin replacement
technology (Muzzarelli, 1983). It has also been used as a
support for enzyme immobilization, since it offers con-
siderable advantages such as form versatility (powder,
gel beads, flocks, fibres, capsules and membranes), low
biodegradability and cost, high affinity towards proteins
and absence of toxicity (No and Meyers, 1995). En-
zymes such as catalase (Cßetinus and €OOztop, 2000), tyro-
sinase (Carvalho et al., 2000), dextranase (Abdel-Naby
et al., 1999), and beta-galactosidase (Shin et al., 1998)
have been immobilized on commercial crustacean
chitosan.
Commercial lipases are expensive and methods toextend their active life have been intensively investi-
gated and developed. Numerous methods of lipase im-
mobilization are available, but adsorption is the most
frequently reported methodology in the literature
(Gunnlaugsdottir et al., 1998). However, adsorption is
stabilised by weak forces and surfactants can often sol-
ubilise most of the lipolytic activity. The aim of this
work was to screen the production of chitosan from
native and culture collection Mucoralean strains looking
for its utilization as a support for lipase covalent
immobilization.
* Corresponding author. Address: Laboratoorio de Imunopatologia
Keizo Asami––LIKA, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco-UFPE,
Av. Professor Moraes Rego s/n, Cidade Universitaaria, 50670-901
Recife, PE, Brazil. Fax: +55-81-3271-8485.
E-mail address: [email protected] (R.V.S. Amorim).
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2. Methods
2.1. Materials
Lipase (EC 3.1.1.3) from Candida cylindraceae (type
VII), arabic gum, Triton X-100, Tris–HCl buffer, crus-
tacean chitosan (C-0792) and p -nitrophenyl-palmitate
(pNPP) were obtained from Sigma Chemical Co. (St.,
Louis, Mo., USA). Glutaraldehyde (25% v/v) and iso-
propanol were purchased from Merck & Co., Inc.
(Germany). All other chemicals used were of analytical
grade.
Mucoralean strains: Mucor circinelloides, Syncepha-
lastrum racemosum and Circinella muscae were isolated
from herbivorous dung (Northeast-Brazil). Cunning-
hamella bertholletiae (IFM 46.114), Cunninghamella
echinulata (URM 2136), Cunninghamella ramosa (URM
1918), Cunninghamella blakesleeana (URM 168), Cunn-
inghamella elegans (IFM 30.505) and Mucor rouxii
(ATCC 24.905) were obtained from: URM––Depart-ment of Mycology-UFPE-Brazil; ATCC––American
Type Culture Collection and IFM––Institute for Food
Microbiology, Chiba University, Japan.
2.2. Chitosan production, extraction and analysis
The strains were maintained on potato dextrose agar
(PDA) slants at 4 °C. Cultures were sub-cultured on
PDA plates, incubated at 28 °C for 5 days and the spore
suspension was used to inoculate 200 ml of nutrient
broth (YPD medium; Bartinicki-Garcia and Nickerson,
1962) to a final concentration of 104
spores mlÀ1
. Thefungi strains were grown at 28 °C for 120 h on an orbital
shaker at 150 rpm. Mycelia from Mucoralean strains
were harvested by vacuum filtration, washed with dis-
tilled water and freeze dried. Chitosan extraction was
carried out as described by Synowiecki and Al-Khateeb
(1997). The IR spectra of chitosan was carried out using
the KBr method and the degree of acetylation (DA)
determined according to the method of Roberts (1992)
using the relative absorbance at wavenumbers of 1655–
3450 cmÀ1. Colorimetric measurement of chitosan was
based on hydrolysis with 4 M hydrochloric acid for 12 h
at 105 °C and the liberated DD-glucosamine estimated
using the Elson–Morgan reaction as described by Blix(1968). Thermogravimetric analyses were carried out
using a SHIMADZU TGA-50 analyser, under nitrogen
flux and at 10 °C/min temperature gradient.
2.3. Lipase immobilization on chitosan film
Chitosan films were prepared as described by Car-
neiro-da-Cunha et al. (1999) and then thoroughly wa-
shed with l M NaOH and distilled water. The films (%4
cm2) were activated with 5% glutaraldehyde solution
(v/v) for 3 h. After that they were thoroughly washed
with distilled water and immersed in 10 ml of lipase
solution (20 mg mlÀ1) in 50 mM Tris–HCl buffer pH 8.0
overnight at 4 °C. The films were subsequently washed
three times with 1 M NaCl, afterwards with 0.1% of
Triton X-100 in Tris–HCl 50 mM buffer and finally with
Tris–HCl 50 mM buffer. The lipolytic activity was de-
termined according to the method of Winkler and
Stuckmann (1979) and consisted of the hydrolysis of
pNPP at 37 °C. One unit of activity was defined as the
amount of lipase that yields 1 lmol of free fatty acid per
minute under the assay conditions.
Operational stability of the immobilized biocatalyst
was established by conducting a series of successive as-
says using the same enzyme sample. After each reaction,
the biocatalyst was washed with 1 M NaCl and 50 mM
Tris–HCl buffer pH 8.0.
2.4. Statistical analysis
Analysis of variance and TukeyÕs studentized rangetest (Snedecor and Cochran, 1980) were used to deter-
mined differences in mean values of the date from 3 to 6
replicates. The variance analyses were carried out with
the software Statistic (Statsoft, Inc., Tulsa, USA, 1997).
A two-factor experiment (Mucoralean strains and cul-
tivation period) in randomised complete block design
was used and results are expressed as averageÆ standard
deviation ( X Æ sd). The treatmentÕs averages with the
same letters do not differ significantly ( p 6 0:05).
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Screening of fungal strains for chitosan production
Extractable chitosan content was examined from nine
Mucoralean strains including three wild fungi isolated
from herbivorous dung in Northeast Brazil. The po-
tential ability of these fungi to produce chitosan was
compared with the collection strains. Data on the
chitosan yields of different Zygomycetes strains after 2
and 5 days of culture is shown in Fig. 1. The variance
analyses between the chitosan production and growth
time revealed significant differences ( p 6 0:05) among
Mucoralean strains.The chitosan contents in dry mycelia varied widely
among the strains of Mucoralean studied, even between
species of the same genus. This variation is clearly ob-
served in Cunninghamella genus where the extractable
chitosan ranged from 2.3% to 12.9%. The Tukey test
( p 6 0:05) indicated that C. bertholletiae and C. echinu-
lata declined in chitosan content over time and pre-
sented the highest chitosan content in 2 days of culture.
The other species revealed different behaviours, with C.
ramosa exhibiting the highest chitosan yield of 12.3%
with 5 days of culture.
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Among all Mucoralean strains, S. racemosum, a
native strain, was the best strain for chitosan produc-
tion, maintaining highest amount of extractable chito-
san in 2 and 5 days of culture, namely, 13.4% and
15.2%, respectively (Fig. 1). The results on chitosan
production obtained in the current work are better
than the responses observed by Miyoshi et al. (1992).
In their study, other Zygomycetes strains including
Cunninghamella species had a chitosan yield ranging
from 1.2% to 10.4% of dry mycelia with 2 days of
growth, with Absidia coerulea showing the highest yieldfor chitosan.
Screening different Zygomycetes strains, Tan et al.
(1996) observed that C. echinulata exhibited the highest
chitosan yield with 7% of dry mycelia obtained with 4
days of culture using different culture conditions and
chitosan extraction method. In the current work, using
the same fungus, chitosan yields of 12.9% and 5.1% for 2
and 5 days of culture, respectively, were found, indi-
cating the influence of growth time on the chitosan
contents found in the fungi.
The fungus M. rouxii has been intensively investi-
gated in the literature in relation to chitosan production.
In 1979, White et al. reported a chitosan content of 6– 9% of dry mycelia weight. In the current work, the
chitosan yield from M. rouxii ATCC 24 905 was 3.3%
and 5.0% for 2 and 5 days of culture, respectively, using
different culture conditions than White et al. (1979).
Synowiecki and Al-Khateeb (1997) studied the influ-
ence of growth time of M. rouxii on the contents of the
chitosan as well as the yield of chitosan during the iso-
lation process. They demonstrated that the content of
extractable chitosan reached a maximum (7.3% of the
dry mycelia) after 2 days of culture and prolonged
growth up to 5 days did not influence the yield of ex-
tractable chitosan. S. racemosum studied in current
work exhibited similar behaviour regarding chitosan
production during the course of growth time. The dry
weight of mycelia (biomass) and extractable chitosan
increased over a period of time until 2 days and pro-
longed growth did not influence the yield of extractable
chitosan. The biomass reached a density of 8 g lÀ1 at
approximately 2 days of cultivation and the high
chitosan yield 157 mg (g dry mycelia weight)À1 (15.7% of
dry mycelia) was observed in 3 days of cultivation.
However, low variation was observed after 2 days, in-
dicating that later exponential growth phase of the
fungus is the best period of growth for optimal chitosan
production. During growth of S. racemosum, the pH of
the culture remained stable until 36 h, after that the pH
reached 7.5 coinciding with the stationary growth phase.
Chitin deacetylase is an enzyme that catalyses the
conversion of chitin to chitosan by the deacetylation of
N -acetyl-glucosamine residues in the fungal cell wall.
The highest chitosan yields from the initial growth stagesuggest that the chitosan formed by chitin deacetylase
was prevalent in this stage, confirmed by previous re-
sults with this fungus where highest chitin deacetylase
activity of 0.05 U mg proteinÀ1 was found in 2 days of
culture. Davis and Bartinicki-Garcia (1984) reported
similar observations indicating that during initial
growth chitin is less crystalline and thus more suscepti-
ble to this enzyme.
3.2. Chitosan characterization
Analysis of the DD-glucosamine residue compositionof chitosan from fungi revealed that S. racemosum has
the highest DD-glucosamine content 88.9% (Fig. 2). How-
ever, significant variation ( p 6 0:05) occurred only in
Fig. 1. Chitosan percentage from dry mycelia weight from different
Mucoralean strains (C. bertholetiae ––CB; C. echinulata ––CE; C. ra-
mose ––CR; C. blakesleeana ––CBL; C. elegans ––CEL; M. rouxii ––MR;
M. circinelloides ––MC; S. racemosum ––SR and Circinella muscae ––
CM), grown in YPD medium. Mean values from three replicates.
Averages with different letters differ statistically by Tukey test
( p 6 0:05).
Fig. 2. DD-glucosamine (% of chitosan) from different Mucoralean
strains (C. bertholetiae ––CB; C. echinulata ––CE; C. ramose ––CR; C.
blakesleeana ––CBL; C. elegans ––CEL; M. rouxii ––MR; M. circi-
nelloides ––MC; S. racemosum ––SR and Circinella muscae ––CM)
grown in YPD medium. Mean values from six replicates. Average with
different letters differ statistically by Tukey test ( p 6 0:05).
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comparison with C. ramosa, M. circinelloides and C.
muscae. No statistically significant effect was observed
when the culture was grown during 2 or 5 days. High
DD-glucosamine content is considered an important prop-
erty since amino groups present in chitosan are the re-
active functional groups used for direct reactions with
glutaraldehyde and enzymes in the immobilization
process (Krajewska, 1991).
To support the fact that acetic acid-extracted mate-
rials from fungal cells were chitosan, the infrared spec-
trum profile of the fraction extracted from S. racemosum
was conducted. The spectrum was similar to those
shown by crustacean chitosan with the characteristic
bands of chitosan such as the hydroxyl band at 3450
cmÀ1, the amide band at 1655–1550 cmÀ1, the amine
band at 1630–1550 cmÀ1 and the C–H band at 3250
cmÀ1.
In addition, the degree of N -acetylation can be mea-
sured from IR spectra by the method of Roberts (1992).
The estimate is determined from the ratio of the ab-sorbance of the amide II band at %1655 cmÀ1 to that of
the C–H band at 3450 cmÀ1 and was 28% in chitosan
from S. racemosum and 20% from crustacean (Sigma).
Amorim et al. (2001) found the degree of N -acetylation
to be 20% in chitosan from C. elegans with 2 days of
cultivation. However, Miyoshi et al. (1992) found the
degree of N -acetylation to be 59% and 35% from
chitosan of M. rouxii and C. blakesleeana, respectively.
Moreover, the large positive charge density due to the
low degree of N -acetylation of chitosans is an important
chemical property for their utilization as support for
enzyme immobilization.The thermogravimetric analysis showed that the
chitosan preparations obtained from the cells of S.
racemosum contain about 4% of inorganic impurities,
while the commercial crustacean chitosan contains 2%.
The difference can be attributed to the fact that the
fungal chitosan has been submitted only to a pre-puri-
fication process with water, ethanol and acetone, during
the final step of chitosan extraction. McGahren et al.
(1984) found that the impurities present in the hyphal
material are likely to be of three types, proteinaceous
material due to inadequate alkaline treatment, triolein
and related glycerides, and sodium salts of oleic and
related acids.
3.3. Immobilization of lipase onto chitosan film and
stability studies
C. cylindraceae lipase was immobilized on a film of
chitosan obtained from mycelia of S. racemosum and
from a crustacean source (Sigma) using glutaraldehyde
as a bifunctional agent. The operational stability of the
immobilized systems was evaluated by reusing them four
times and assaying their activities. The lipase activity
dramatically dropped to about 45% of the initial activity
for the second use and remained stable until the fourth
use in both preparations. The lipase activities for fourth
use on chitosan film from S. racemosum and from
crustacean source were 47% and 42% of their initial
activities, respectively, dropping from 26.8 to 12.6
lmolsÀ1 mÀ2 and from 30.0 to 12.6 lmolsÀ1 mÀ2.
A similar result for residual activity of immobilized
lipase on chitosan from a crustacean source was also
reported by Carneiro-da-Cunha et al. (1999), where the
lipase activity was 12.0 lmol sÀ1 mÀ2 after the fourth
use, which represented 5% of the initial activity (245.0
lmolsÀ1 mÀ2). The highest residual activity of 42%,
found in the current study on the same support, is
probably due to the utilization of Triton X-100 for
support pre-wash, before the first lipolytic activity de-
termination. Many physically adsorbed enzymes were
probably washed out before the first activity determi-
nation and this accounts for the difference in the initial
activity. Carneiro-da-Cunha et al. (1999) had previ-
ously determined that successive solubilization of theweakly absorbed immobilized enzyme was observed
when Triton X-100 was present in the emulsion during
the enzymatic assays. The Triton X-100 washing was
introduced in the present work because of this obser-
vation.
A decrease in activity after the first washing proce-
dure and further stabilization of the immobilized enzy-
matic preparation has been described in the literature
for covalent binding immobilization of other enzymes
on chitosan. Abdel-Naby et al. (1999) reported a dex-
tranase from Penicillium funicolosum 258 with residual
activity of 63% and Cß
etinus and€
OOztop (2000) a catalasewith residual activity of about 50%.
Other enzymatic preparations have been reported
using chitosan as support. Spagna et al. (2001) found
residual activity with a-LL-rhamnopyranosidase from
Aspergillus niger immobilized on chitosan and on di-
ethylaminoethyl chitosan (DE-chitosan), both also ac-
tivated with glutaraldehyde, showing activities of 21 and
22 U gÀ1 of support, respectively.
Most of the early studies reported in the literature on
the immobilization of lipases refer to just the first use of
the biocatalyst, such as 12.0 lmolsÀ1 mÀ2 reported by
Pronk et al. (1988) for an immobilized lipase on cellulose
support. Currently, it is possible to find reports of im-mobilization with more than one use, with different
enzymes, supports and processes. Oliveira et al. (2000),
in successive esterification activity assays, after 12 cycles,
retained 77% (from 210.0 to 161.7 mmol gÀ1 minÀ1) of
an immobilized lipase activity by adsorption on styrene–
divinylbenzene copolymer (STYDVB). Murray et al.
(1997), studying C. rugosa lipase immobilization on a
lipophilic particulate support (porous Accurel EP400
power, a low density polyethylene powder, from Akzo
Nobel, Germany) observed a residual activity of 65%
after five hydrolysis cycles. Therefore, comparing results
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found in the literature with those present in the current
study becomes difficult sometimes since it is often un-
clear whether the enzyme is just adsorbed or covalenty
bound to the support and information on washings of
support is often omitted. In conclusion, the results show
that S. racemosum is a good producer of alternative
source chitosan with ability for application as immobi-
lization support.
Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the financial support of
CAPES, UNICAP, PRONEX and CNPq. We thanked
the reviewers for their valuable contributions. We are
also grateful to Dra. Maria Helena Alves from Uni-
versidade do Vale do Acarauu for kindly supplying the
Mucoralean wild strains and to Dr. Cosme Rafael
Martinez for statistical analysis assistance.
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