Immobilization of Lipases and their Enzymatic Features

Immobilization of lipases has been recognized as an efficient way to recycle lipases and enhance production efficiency. Many immobilized lipases are easily accessible and commercially available to cater to various industries. Today, immobilization is not just only for the initial “recovery” purpose, with proper design, immobilization is an efficient way to improve the enzymatic features, including activity, selectivity, stability, or resistance to inhibitors and chemical reagents. However, studies in this area are still in the infant stage. Especially in certain reactions, like glycerolysis of triacylglycerols or the esterification of free fatty acids with glycerol, which are important in oils and fats modification. In addition, climate change has been a hot topic for debate recently. Henceforth, "sustainability" has become an essential factor to consider in the research and development of many industries, including lipase immobilization technology. And presently, most of the immobilization materials are usually made up of organic or organic sources, and sometimes organic solvents are used in the process of immobilization.

Therefore, the Research Topic aims to contribute to the latest knowledge on the “immobilization of lipase and their enzymatic features”, to address the following issues: the effects of 1) immobilization conditions; 2) support properties; 3) the reaction medium on the enzymatic features of the supported lipases, especially for the selectivity and activity for some specific reactions, like glycerolysis of triacylglycerols and esterification of free fatty acids with glycerol; in addition, 4) to produce eco-friendly economical and robust materials for the immobilization of lipase, is another issue in the present research topic.

The Research Topic on “Immobilization of lipases and their enzymatic features” welcomes submissions as below:
• the effects of immobilization conditions on the enzymatic features of the supported lipases
• the effects of support properties on the enzymatic features of the immobilized lipases
• the effects of the reaction medium on the enzymatic features of the obtained supported lipases
• to develop new eco-friendly economical, and robust materials for the immobilization of lipases
• the catalytic mechanism of lipase, new types of reactors and their application
• other latest studies related to the immobilization of lipases and their enzymatic features

Keywords: lipase, immobilization, selectivity, sustainability, activity

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