Microfluidic Reactors Based on Rechargeable Catalytic Porous Supports: Heterogeneous Enzymatic Catalysis via Reversible Host-Guest Interactions

Autor: Nelson Vargas-Alfredo, Alexandra Muñoz-Bonilla, Alberto Gallardo, Agatha Bastida, Alberto Sanz de León, Juan Rodríguez-Hernández, Alfonso Fernández-Mayoralas
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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ISSN: 1944-8252
Popis: We report on the fabrication of a microfluidic device in which the reservoir contains a porous surface with enzymatic catalytic activity provided by the reversible immobilization of horseradish peroxidase onto micrometer size pores. The porous functional reservoir was obtained by the Breath Figures approach by casting in a moist environment a solution containing a mixture of high molecular weight polystyrene (HPS) and a poly(styrene-co-cyclodextrin based styrene) (P(S-co-SCD)) statistical copolymer. The pores enriched in CD were employed to immobilize horseradish peroxidase (previously modified with adamantane) by hostguest interactions (HRP-Ada). These surfaces exhibit catalytic activity that remains stable during several reaction cycles. Moreover, the porous platforms could be recovered by using free water-soluble β-CD with detergents. An excess of β-CD/TritonX100 in solution disrupts the interactions between HRP-Ada and the CD-modified substrate thus allowing us to recover the employed enzyme and reuse the platform.
The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifí cas (CSIC). Equally, this work was financially supported by the Ministerio de Economiá y Competitividad (MINECO) through MAT2013-47902-C2-1-R, MAT2016-78437-R MAT2013-42957-R, MAT2015-65184-C2- 2-R, and CTQ2013-45538-P.
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