Fragmented α-amylase into microporous metal-organic frameworks as bioreactors

Li Hao Liu; Ru Yin Chiu; Pamela Berilyn So; Stephen Lirio; Hsi Ya Huang; Wan Ling Liu; Chia Her Lin

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Fragmented α-amylase into microporous metal-organic frameworks as bioreactors

Li Hao Liu, Ru Yin Chiu, Pamela Berilyn So, Stephen Lirio, Hsi Ya Huang, Wan Ling Liu, Chia Her Lin^*

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This work presents an efficient and facile strategy to prepare an α-amylase bioreactor. As enzymes are quite large to be immobilized inside metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the tertiary and quaternary structures of α-amylase were first disrupted using a combination of urea, dithio-threitol (DTT), and iodoacetamide (IAA). After losing its tertiary structure, the unfolded proteins can now penetrate into the microporous MOFs, affording fragmented α-amylase@MOF bioreactors. Among the different MOFs evaluated, UiO-66 gave the most promising potential due to the size-matching effect of the α-helix of the fragmented α-amylase with the pore size of UiO-66. The prepared bioreactor exhibited high yields of small carbohydrate (maltose) even when reused up to 15 times (>80% conversion).

Original language	English
Article number	870
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Materials
Volume	14
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14040870
Publication status	Published - 2021 Feb 2

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Bioreactor
Catalysis
Enzyme immobilization
Metal-organic framework
Size matching

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General Materials Science

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