Immobilization of Cyclodextringlycosyltransferase (CGTase) from Bacillus firmus in Commercial Chitosan

The enzyme cyclodextringlycosyltransferase (CGTase) was immobilized in commercial chitosan with different methods of immobilization at different temperatures, with the aim of obtaining a product with improved activity and higher recovery of the free enzyme activity. Three immobilization methods were tested: adsorption, covalent bonding with -aminopropyltriethoxysilane (CB-APTS), and covalent bonding with hexamethylenediamine (BC-HEMDA). Two test conditions were used, 7 °C without agitation and 26 °C with stirring. The best results were obtained with the method that uses HEMDA as the bifunctional covalent binding agent, giving the highest immobilized enzyme specific activity, 0.263 mol -CD/min mg of protein, and highest enzyme activity recovery, 5.2%, when immobilization was carried out at 7 °C.