Tyrosinase Reaction and Subsequent Chitosan Adsorption for Selective Removal of a Contaminant from a Fermentation Recycle Stream
AUTOR(ES)
Payne, Gregory F.
RESUMO
In the industrial production of penicillin V, the phenoxyacetate precursor is added to the fermentor to direct biosynthesis. When used for producing semisynthetic penicillins, the penicillin V is often hydrolyzed to 6-aminopenicillanic acid with the regeneration of the phenoxyacetate precursor. To reduce raw-material as well as waste-disposal costs, it is desirable to recycle the phenoxyacetate precursor. Unfortunately, the recycle stream is generally contaminated by the p-hydroxylated derivative of this precursor. We examined a two-step approach to eliminate this contaminant. In the first step the tyrosinase enzyme was used to selectively convert the p-hydroxyphenoxyacetate contaminant to a reactive intermediate—presumably its quinone. In the second step, the tyrosinase-generated reactive intermediate was allowed to react with and strongly bind to chitosan. In contrast, the phenoxyacetate precursor was neither oxidized by tyrosinase nor bound to chitosan. When concentrated phenoxyacetate solutions were tested, the combination of tyrosinase and chitosan effectively converted low levels of the p-hydroxyphenoxyacetate contaminant and removed its products from solution, while the concentration of the phenoxyacetate precursor was unaffected.
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