Estudio de la estabilidad de fitoproteasas en sistemas bifásicos acuoso-orgánicos utilizando relaciones lineales de energía libre.

SONIA BARBERIS; EVELINA QUIROGA; SUSANA MORCELLE; NORA PRIOLO; JUAN M. LUCO

Montevideo, Uruguay

Congreso; 1º Encuentro Regional de Biocatálisis y Biotransformaciones; 2004

Facultad de la República - Facultad de Química

In this work we study the effect of different water-immiscible organic solvents on the stability (residual caseinolytic activity after 4 h) of soluble phytoproteases, such as araujiain, funastrain and papain in aqueous-organic biphasic systems, for the enzymatic peptide synthesis. Besides, the effect of organic solvents on enzymatic catalysis was quantitatively studied by means of linear free energy relationships (LFERs). The organic solvents were characterized by several physicochemical properties and multiple linear regression analysis (MLRA) together nonlinear regression were the used methods to search the relationships between the residual caseinolytic activity data and several physicochemical parameters. Those enzymes show greater activity and stability in some biphasic media than in water. On the other hand, all developed correlations represented highly significant LFERs models and showed that nonspecific polar and hydrophobic factors are the prime and approximately equal importance for the biocatalytic activity of araujiain, funastrain and papain in the studied biphasic systems, while the specific polar interactions are of little importance for activity. The obtained results suggested that the enzymes do not suffer unfolding in the studied biphasic media and they are able to retain their native or native-like configurations, though with altered characteristics or properties. This fact, was demonstrated by means of a comparative FTIR spectroscopy study in both, buffer and biphasic media, for each studied enzyme.