Corrosion Inhibition by Co-Immobilized Lysozyme and Lipase in Circulating Cooling Water System

The corrosion inhibition performance of co-immobilized lysozyme and lipase was investigated in a recirculating cooling water system. Four methods were carried out in co-immobilization, and the operating parameters were optimized by using the respond surface methodology(RSM). The corrosion inhibition performance of co-immobilized lipase and lysozyme was evaluated by weight loss measurements and electrochemical measurements. The results revealed that the optimal co-immobilization method should be the sequential immobilization of lysozyme and then lipase. The inhibition efficiency was 86.10% under the optimal co-immobilized conditions. Electrochemical data showed that co-immobilized lysozyme and lipase was a mixed-type inhibitor and the corrosion inhibition efficiency was 81%.

Combined Use of Co-immobilized Lysozyme and Lipase and Chemical Inhibitors in Circulating Cooling Water System

In order to improve the stability and corrosion inhibition performance of bioenzyme, lipase and lsozyme were co-immobilized on the mesoporous molecular sieve MCM-41 by the adsorption method. Then the immobilized enzymes were combined with amino trimethylene phosphonic acid and polyaspartic acid to prevent corrosion caused by circulating cooling water. The weight-loss method and electrochemical techniques were used to evaluate the performance of composite inhibitors. The co-immobilized lysozyme and lipase achieved good inhibition effects. After they were combined with amino trimethylene phosphonic acid and polyaspartic acid, the corrosion inhibition properties were further improved. The inhibition efficiency was promoted to 94.4%. During the corrosion inhibition process, the immobilized enzymes played an important role. The addition of corrosion inhibitor could inhibit the anodic dissolution and cathodic hydrogen evolution process of carbon steel at the same time. The adsorption of co-immobilized lysozyme and lipase composite inhibitor on the steel surface was a joint action involving physical adsorption and chemical adsorption.

Multienzyme co-immobilization-based bioelectrode:Design of principles and bioelectrochemical applications

Enzyme cascade reactions play significant roles in bioelectrochemical processes because they permit more complex reactions. Co-immobilization of multienzyme on the electrode could help to facilitate substrate/intermediate transfer among different enzymes and electron transfer from enzyme active sites to the electrode with high stability and retrievability. Different co-immobilization strategies to construct multienzyme bioelectrodes have been widely reported, however, up to now, they have barely been reviewed. In this review, we focus on recent state-of-the-art techniques for constructing co-immobilized multienzyme electrodes including random and positional co-immobilization. Particular attention is given to strategies such as multienzyme complex and surface display. Cofactor co-immobilization on the electrode is also crucial for the enhancement of catalytic reaction and electron transfer, yet, few studies have been reported. The up-to-date advances in bioelectrochemical applications of multienzyme bioelectrodes are also presented. Finally, key challenges and future perspectives are discussed.

Influence of Brewing Method on Quality of Apple Vinegar

[Objective] The paper was to compare the quality of apple vinegars prepared by different methods and screen an optimum brewing method for apple vinegar production. [Methed] The quality of apple vinegar brewed by three traditional brewing methods and a new method developed by our previous work was analyzed. Three traditional methods were solid state fermentation （SSF）, liquid state fermentation （LSF） and immobilized microorganism fermentation （IMF）, and the new method was multi-microorganisms co-immobilization technology（MMCT）, which used co-immobilized beads of ethanol-producing yeast, aroma-improving yeast and lactic acid bacteria （with a ratio of 6：3：1） for alcoholic fermentation and then used immobilized acetic acid bacteria for vinegar fermentation. [Result] The general quality of apple vinegar brewed by MMCT was superior to the others. Its total acidity reached to 3.845 g/100 ml, unvolatile acidity was about 0.600 g/100 ml, amino-nitrogen was higher than 0.510 g/100 ml, and the composing of flavor compounds was almost similar to that of SSF brewed apple vinegar. [Conclusion] The MMCT method was proven to be the optimum one for high quality apple vinegar brewing and might be widely used in the future.

Magnetic wrinkled organosilica-based metal-enzyme integrated catalysts for enhanced chemoenzymatic catalysis

Core-shell structured magnetic wrinkled organosilica-based metal-enzyme integrated catalysts were synthesized,and their catalytic performances were studied in the chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution of chiral amines in an organic solvent,as well as in the chemoenzymatic synthesis of chiral alcohols in water.Structureperformance studies revealed the important influence of their tunable structure and composition on the optimization of activity,stability,and recyclability in chemoenzymatic catalysis.

Relationships between bacterial-algal proliferating and mass extinction in the Late Devonian Frasnian-Famennian transition:Enlightening from carbon isotopes and molecular fossils

Studies show positive shifts of inorganic and organic carbon isotope values (δ 13Ccarb and δ 13Ckerogen) from +0.43 (‰ V-PDB) to +3.54 (‰ V-PDB) and from ?29.38 (‰ V-PDB) to ?24.14 (‰ V-PDB), respectively, B* (Ba* = Ba/ (Al2O3 X 15%)) values from 0.015 to 0.144, TOC values from 0.02% to 0.21%, V/Cr values from 0.3 to 2.0, Sr/Ba values from 3.20 to 49.50 in the Late Devonian Frasnian Upper rhenana zone to the top linguiformis zone of the Yangdi sec-tion deposited in carbonate slope facies of Guilin, Guangxi, South China, which indicates that biomass, productivity, organic carbon burial and salinity increase and that oxygenation near the boundary between sediments and waters decreases from the Late Devonian Frasnian Upper rhenana zone to the top linguiformis zone. Abundance of molecular fossils increases and normal alkanes, isoprenoid hydrocarbon, terpanes and steranes are dominated from the Late Devonian Frasnian to the bottom of Famennian, which shows that the predecessors of molecular fossils of the Frasnian-Famennian (F-F) transition are dominated by marine phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthic bacteria with no photosynthesis. Therefore, it is considered that the F-F transitional mass extinction with a multistage, selection and global synchronizing was caused by bacte-rial-algal proliferating, continuing deterioration of the shallow marine ecoenvironment of the mid-dle-lower latitudes. A simple cause and effect chain can be expressed as: appearance of seed plants and multi-storied forests → enhanced chemical and biochemical weathering and pe-dogenesis → wide development of soils → increasing riverine nutrient fluxes in epicontinental sea → from superoligotrophic to eutrophic in epicontinental sea → proliferating of marine phyto-plankton and zooplankton → frequent red tide and anoxia → mass extinction of shallow marine organisms in the middle-lower latitudes. It is worth notice that the factor drawdown of atmos-pheric Pco2, climatic cooling and sea level falling caused by eutrophication, anoxia and organic carbon burial increasing may be important for the mass extinction.

Pentachlorophenol (PCP) degradation microorganism community structure under microaeration condition

The comparison of pentachlorophenol(PCP)degradation was conducted under micro-aeration and anaerobic condition with three series of batch experiment,results of which indicated that during micro-aeration condition co-immobilized of anaerobic granular sludge and isolated aerobic bacterial species could enhance the efficiency of PCP reduction through the synergism of aerobes and anaerobes reductive dechlorination and exchange of metabolites within the co-immobilized granular sludge.While during anaerobic condition,there was no great difference in the three series.The specific activities experiment further confirmed that strict anaerobes were not affected over the presence of micro aeration environment.Microorganism community construc-tion of co-immobilized anaerobic granular sludge and the mixed isolated aerobic community was also deduced.By the efficient cooperation of aerobes and anaerobes,the high efficiency removal rate of PCP was implemented.