Laccase from Trametes versicolor

The enzyme laccase was produced by the white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor in repeated batches cultures with immobilized mycelium. Two different culture conditions were used. Enzymes produced were evaluated regarding their stability a thigh temperatures (55°C and 65°C) and at alkaline conditions (pH 7.0 and pH 8.0) having in view the application of these enzymes in biobleaching of hardwood Kraft pulp. Biobleaching experiments were divided in two parts, enzymatic prebleaching followed by chemical bleaching. In the enzymatic prebleaching the enzyme laccase was used at two conditions of pH and temperature, whereas the reaction time was fixed at 1h in all pretreatments. In the chemical bleaching the DEDED and DEpDED sequences were used. The enzyme action was evaluated by Kappa number, viscosity, and brightness at the end of bleaching sequences. There were obtained values of Kappa numbers lower than control assays, viscosities compatible with industrial pulps, and brightness higher than controls, when pulps were pretreated for 1 h with laccase at pH 8.0 and 55°C.     

Purification and characterization of a laccase from the white-rot fungus Trametes multicolor

The wood-degrading fungus Trametes multicolor secretes several laccase isoforms when grown on a simple medium containing copper in the millimolar range for stimulating laccase synthesis. The main isoenzyme laccase II was purified to apparent homogeneity from the culture supernatant by using anion-exchange chromatography and gel filtration. Laccase II is a monomeric glycoprotein with a molecular mass of 63 kDa as determined by sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, contains 18% glycosylation, and has a pI of 3.0. It oxidizes a variety of phenolic substrates as well as ferrocyanide and iodide. The pH optimum depends on the substrate employed and shows a bell-shaped pH activity profile with an optimum of 4.0 to 5.0 for the phenolic substrates, while the nonphenolic substrates ferrocyanide and 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonate) show a monotonic pH profile with a rate decreasing with increasing pH.     

Degradation of textile dyes mediated by plant peroxidases

The peroxidase enzyme from the plants Ipomea palmata (1.003 IU/g of leaf) and Saccharum spontaneum (3.6 IU/g of leaf) can be used as an alternative to the commercial source of horseradish and soybean peroxidase enzyme for the decolorization of textile dyes, mainly azo dyes. Eight textiles dyes currently used by the industry and seven other dyes were selected for decolorization studies at 25–200 mg/L levels using these plant enzymes. The enzymes were purified prior to use by ammonium sulfate precipitation, and ion exchange and gel permeation chromatographic techniques. Peroxidase of S. spontaneum leaf (specific activity of 0.23 IU/mg) could completely degrade Supranol Green and Procion Green HE-4BD (100%) dyes within 1 h, whereas Direct Blue, Procion Brilliant Blue H-7G and Chrysoidine were degraded >70% in 1 h. Peroxidase of Ipomea (I. palmata leaf; specific activity of 0.827 U/mg) degraded 50 mg/L of the dyes Methyl Orange (26%), Crystal Violet (36%), and Supranol Green (68%) in 2–4 h and Brilliant Green 54%), Direct Blue (15%), and Chrysoidine (44%) at the 25 mg/L level in 1 to 2 h of treatment. The Saccharum peroxidase was immobilized on a hydrophobic matrix. Four textile dyes, Procion Navy Blue HER, Procion Brilliant Blue H-7G, Procion Green HE-4BD, and Supranol Green, at an initial concentration of 50 mg/L were completely degraded within 8 h by the enzyme immobilized on the modified polyethylene matrix. The immobilized enzyme was used in a batch reactor for the degradation of Procion Green HE-4BD and the reusability was studied for 15 cycles, and the halflife was found to be 60 h.     

Biodegradation of methylene blue and carbaryl by Trametes versicolor laccase preparations in the presence of a mediator compound

Laccase from Trametes versicolar was immobilized on to acrylate based microbeads carrying epoxy or carbonate groups. The amounts of immobilized enzyme on the carbonate and epoxy groups were 24.6 and 9.7?mg/g, respectively. In the presence of a mediator (i.e., acetosyringone) almost 100% biodegradation was observed for both Methylene Blue dye (MB) and Carbaryl pesticide (CP) by the immobilized laccases, while in the absence of mediator, 63 and 71%, respectively. The immobilized enzyme was operated in a fluidized bed reactor for biodegradation of MB and CP for 24?h, and the initial activity lost was only 8.0 and 2.0%, respectively. The data show that the immobilized enzyme can effectively be utilized for complete degradation of organic pollutants in wastewaters.     

从野生与突变株云芝IBL-04提纯锰过氧化物酶及其表征

由野生及突变株云芝IBL-04制得细胞外锰过氧化物酶(MnPs),并经过硫酸铵沉淀、透析、离子交换和凝胶渗透层析法等步骤提纯.纯化的酶在十二烷基硫酸钠-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳(SDS-PAGE)上于43 kDa区域呈现单一谱带,它适宜的pH值和温度分别为5.0和40°C.突变株MnPs表现出比野生株MnPs更宽的活性pH值范围和更高的热稳定性.从所选突变株所得纯化的MnPs表现出与野生株MnP几乎相同的电泳性质、稳态动力学、金属离子和EDCs降解效率.该生物酶与Mn2+一起催化的反应速率最快,但最高的亲和性对应于ABTS、甲氧基羟苯基乙二醇、4-氨基苯酚和活性染料. Mn2+和Cu2+可显著提高MnPs的活性,但Zn2+, Fe2+, EDTA和半胱氨酸则会不同程度地抑制其活性, Hg2+是最强的活性抑制剂.所有来源的MnPs均可有效催化EDCs、壬基苯酚和二氯苯氧氯酚降解,处理3 h可除去80%以上,在MnPs-介质体系中可进一步提高到90%.综上,云芝MnPs生物酶具有较高的pH适用性和热稳定性、独特的Michaelis-Menten动力学参数和高的EDCs去除效率等特点,因而有望工业化应用.     

Mn2+ alters peroxidase profiles and lignin degradation by the white-rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus under different nutritional and growth conditions

The white-rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus produces two types of extracellular peroxidases: manganese-dependent peroxidase (MnP) and versatile peroxidase (VP). The effect of Mn²⁺ on fungal growth, peroxidase activity profiles, and lignin degradation by P. ostreatus was studied in liquid culture and under solid-state fermentation conditions on perlite, the latter resembling the natural growth conditions of this fungus. The fungus was grown in either a defined asparagine-containing basidiomycete selective medium (BSM) or in a rich peptone medium (PM). Biomass production, as determined by respiration experiments in solid-state fermentation and liquid cultures and fungal growth on Petri dishes, was higher in the PM than in the BSM. Mn²⁺ affected biomass production only in the PM on Petri dishes. In the nonamended PM, high levels of MnP and VP activity were detected relative to the nonamended BSM. Nevertheless, a higher rate of ¹⁴C-lignin mineralization was measured in the Mn²⁺-amended BSM, as determined during the course of 47 d of fermentation. Mn²⁺ amendment of the PM increased mineralization rate to that obtained in the Mn²⁺-amended BSM. The enzyme activity profiles of MnP and VP were studied in the BSM using anion-exchange chromatography. In the nonamended BSM, only minute levels of MnP and VP were detected. On Mn²⁺ amendment, two MnP isoenzymes (B1 and B2) appeared. Isoenzyme B2 was purified and showed 100% identity with the MnP isoenzyme purified in our previous study from PM-solid-state fermentation (P6). P6 was found to be the dominant isoenzyme in terms of activity level and gene expression compared with the VP isoenzymes. Based on these results, we concluded that Mn²⁺ plays a key role in lignin degradation under different nutritional and growth conditions, since it is required for the production of MnP in P. ostreatus.     

Heterologous expression of Trametes versicolor laccase in Pichia pastoris and Aspergillus niger

Convenient expression systems for efficient heterologous production of different laccases are needed for their characterization and application. The laccase cDNAs lcc1 and lcc2 from Trametes versicolor were expressed in Pichia pastoris and Aspergillus niger under control of their respective glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoters and with the native secretion signal directing catalytically active laccase to the medium. P. pastoris batch cultures in shake-flasks gave higher volumetric activity (1.3 U/L) and a better activity to biomass ratio with glucose than with glycerol or maltose as carbon source. Preliminary experiments with fed-batch cultures of P. pastoris in bioreactors yielded higher activity (2.8 U/L) than the shake-flask experiments, although the levels remained moderate and useful primarily for screening purposes. With A. niger, high levels of laccase (2700 U/L) were produced using a minimal medium containing sucrose and yeast extract. Recombinant laccase from A. nigher harboring the lcc2 cDNA was purified to homogeneity and it was found to be a 70-kDa homogeneous enzyme with biochemical and catalytic properties similar to those of native T. versicolor laccase A.     

Anti-inflammatory activities of the chemical constituents isolated from Trametes versicolor

Twenty-seven compounds including nine triterpenoids (1–9), eight sterols (10–17), two ribonucleotides (18, 19), four phenols (20–23), three glycosides (24–26), and one furan (27) were isolated from the fruiting bodies of Trametes versicolor (L.) Lloyd. This study is the first confirmation of the presence of the 11 compounds (3, 5, 6, 8, 18, 20, 21, 23–25, and 27) isolated from the Polyporaceae family, with six of these (2 and 12–16) from the genus Trametes. Compounds 3, 4, 10, 11, 16 and 17 were found to significantly inhibit the production of NO, TNF-α and IL-6 in a dose-dependent manner.     

Action of white-rot fungus Panus tigrinus on sugarcane bagasse

Biological pretreatments with three selected strains of Panus tigrinus were used for delignification of sugarcane bagasse. The fungi with potential for delignification were analyzed by determining the chemical composition of the decayed bagasse samples, and the selectivity in terms of weight loss of the different components was evaluated. All the strains grow abundantly on bagasse as unique carbon source. After determining the chemical composition of degraded bagasse, P. tigrinus FTPT-4745 was selected as the most efficient strain on a 6-g scale, since the carbohydrates were preserved. P. tigrinus FTPT-4741 and FTPT-4742 were the most efficient strains on a large scale (100 g).     

Enhanced formation of extracellular laccase activity by the white-rot fungus Trametes multicolor

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - The white-rot fungus Trametes multicolor MB 49 has been identified as an excellent producer of the industrially important enzyme laccase. The formation of...     

Cis-trans-isomerization of cationic-anionic polymethine dyes

The effect of solvent polarity and ion pair formation oncis-trans-isomerization of cationic-anionic polymethine dyes and of related simple cationic and anionic dyes is studied by flash photolysis. The change in the rate constant for reversecis-trans- isomerization of photoisomers due to the interaction of a cation with an anion in an ion pair is observed in nonpolar solvents. A drop in the yield of the photoisomers to zero is observed for a number of cationic-anionic dyes in weakly polar and nonpolar solvents which is possibly due to steric hindrances in the photoisomerization process in ion pairs.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 719–724, April, 1993.     

Decolorization of Some Azo Dyes by Immobilized <Emphasis Type="Italic">Geotrichum</Emphasis> sp. Biomass in Fluidized Bed Bioreactor

Geotrichum sp. strain, which is able to decolorize azo dyes enzymatically, was used in this study for decolorization of synthetics solutions contaminated by toxic azo dyes orange G, trypan blue, azorubine, and methyl red. The biomass of Geotrichum sp. was immobilized in calcium alginate and polyacrylamide gels and used for the decolorization of tested azo dyes in fluidized bed bioreactor. The highest specific decolorization rate was obtained when the fungal biomass was entrapped in calcium alginate beads. Immobilized biomass in calcium alginate continuously decolorized azo dyes after eight repeated batch decolorization experiments without significant loss of activity whereas polyacrylamide immobilized biomass retained only 10% of its activity after 4 days of incubation. The effects of some physicochemical parameters such as temperature, pH, and dyes concentration on decolorization performance of isolated fungal strain were also investigated.     

New polyhydroxylated metabolite derived from biotransformation of diosgenin by the white-rot fungus Coriolus versicolor

<正>Microbial transformation of diosgenin(1) was carried out with the white-rot fungus,Coriolus versicolor.A new polyhydroxyl metabolite,(25R)-spirost-5-ene-3β,7β,21-triol(2),was obtained as a result of hydroxylation.Its structure was elucidated on the basis of 1D and 2D NMR as well as HR-ESI-MS spectroscopic analysis.     

Spectral study of the aggregation of benzothiazolic cyanine dyes in solutions and polymolecular layers

The formation ofJ-aggregates of three polymethine dyes in solutions and in Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) polylayers was studied. The dyes formJ-aggregates in mixtures of solvents of different polarity: hexane-chloroform and heptane-chloroform taken in various ratios. The formation ofJ-aggregates in LB polylayers depends on the type of matrix and on the matrix: dye ratio.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 1, pp. 96–99, January, 1995.The authors are grateful to Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences M. V. Alfimov for valuable remarks and to Dr. A. I. Tolmachev for kindly donating samples of dyes.This work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No. 94-03-09182).     

Photochemistry of anionic polymethine dyes

Spectral and kinetic properties of photoisomers and triplet molecules of a number of anionic polymethine dyes, namely, differential absorption spectra, rate constants (k _i ) and activation parameters of reversecis-trans-isomerization, and triplet-state-decay rate constantsk _T are studied by flash photolysis. CINDP/2 calculations of electron density in anionic dyes show thatk _i andk _T in polar solvents are determined primarily by the electronic effect of the substituents in themeso-position of the polymethine chain of a dye. The increase ink _i due to the formation of ion pairs consisting of a dye with a counterion is observed in nonpolar solvents.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 713–718, April, 1993.     

Pulp bleaching using laccase from trametes versicolor under high temperature and alkaline conditions

Kraft pulp was delignified using laccase produced by the white rot fungusTrametes versicolor immobilized in solid support under specific conditions. The stability tests showed that this enzyme was stable for 6 h at 55°C and pH 8.0, allowing its use under pH and temperature conditions very close to those used in industrial bleaching. In this work, unbleached hardwood Kraft pulp was submitted to prebleaching using 2 U laccase/g pulp basis. Reaction time, temperature, and pH of the enzymatic treatment were investigated. Good results regarding Kappa number reduction, selectivities, and high viscosities were obtained when prebleaching was performed for 1 h at temperature of 55©C and pH 8.0 followed by alkaline extraction and ECF bleaching sequences.

     

Characterization of a Recombinant Laccase B from Trametes hirsuta MX2 and Its Application for Decolorization of Dyes

Trametes hirsuta is able to secrete laccase isoenzymes including constitutive and inducible forms, and has potential application for bioremediation of environmental pollutants. Here, an inducible group B laccase from T. hirsuta MX2 was heterologously expressed in Pichia pastoris, and its yield reached 2.59 U/mL after 5 days of methanol inducing culture. The optimal pH and temperature of recombinant laccase (rLac1) to 2,2′-azino-bis-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) were 2.5 and 60 °C, respectively. Metal ions showed different effect on rLac1 which Mg²⁺, Cu²⁺, and K⁺ increased enzyme activity as their concentration increased, whereas Zn²⁺, Na⁺, and Fe²⁺ inhibited enzyme activity as their concentration increased. rLac1 showed good tolerance to organic solvents, and more than 42% of its initial activity remained in 10% organic solvents. Additionally, rLac1 exhibited a more efficient decolorization ability for remazol brilliant blue R (RBBR) than for acid red 1 (AR1), crystal violet (CV), and neutral red (NR). Molecular docking results showed RBBR has a stronger binding affinity with laccase than other dyes by interacting with substrate binding cavity of enzyme. The results indicated rLac1 may be a potential candidate for dye removal from textile wastewater.     

Enhancement of azo dyes removal efficiency by using LDH/Tris/Pd catalyst: Kinetic studies

LDH/Tris/Pd (CaAl‐layered double hydroxide/tris (hydroxymethyl)aminomethane/palladium) was synthesized and appraised for its catalytic activity towards the degradation of two selected azo dyes. The decolorization of azo dyes, acid red 18 (AR 18) and reactive yellow 15 (RY 15), requires considerably small amounts of synthesized catalyst. Kinetic studies show that the catalytic decolorization of these azo dyes follows the first order kinetic model. The reported method is simple and applicable; in addition, the stable catalyst can efficiently decolorize model azo dyes with good recyclability. Therefore, LDH/Tris/Pd can be accepted as the possible component for the utilization in wastewater treatment.     

Study of the influential factors in the simultaneous photocatalytic degradation process of three textile dyes

The influence of several factors in the simultaneous photocatalytic degradation of three textile dyes - Acid Red 97, Acid Orange 61 and Acid Brown 425 - has been studied using a fractional factorial design 2^5-1. The considered factors were: the initial concentration of each dye, the catalyst concentration (TiO₂) and pH.First, we developed a rapid analytical methodology based on recording UV-visible spectra during the degradation process and a data treatment using multivariate curve resolution with alternating least squares (MCR-ALS), which enabled the three dyes to be quantified simultaneously despite the overlap of their spectra.The kinetic constant of degradation for each dye in all the experiments was evaluated. In all cases the degradation followed a first order kinetics. For a significance level of 5%, the most important factor in the photodegradation of each dye is the concentration of Acid Red 97, the degradation is more effective at higher pHs and, in the studied range, the concentration of the catalyst is not important.