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Lipase immobilization through the combination of bio-imprinting and crosslinked protein-coated microcrystal technology for biodiesel production Jing Gao, Luyan Yin, Kai Feng, Liya Zhou, Li Ma, Ying He, Lihui Wang, and Yanjun Jiang Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b03273 • Publication Date (Web): 11 Oct 2016 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on October 17, 2016

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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

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Lipase immobilization through the combination of

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bio-imprinting

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microcrystal technology for biodiesel production

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Jing Gaoa,b, Luyan Yina, Kai Fenga, Liya Zhoua,b, Li Maa,b, Ying Hea,b, Lihui Wanga,

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Yanjun Jianga,b *

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a School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hebei University of Technology,

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8 Guangrong Road, Hongqiao District, Tianjin 300130, PR China

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b Hebei Provincial Key Lab of Green Chemical Technology and High Efficient

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Energy Saving, Hebei University of Technology, 8 Guangrong Road, Hongqiao

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District, Tianjin 300130, PR China

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*Corresponding Author: E-mail: [email protected]; Tel: 86-22-60204945

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Abstract：：

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A novel immobilized lipase of Burkholderia cepacia lipase (BCL) was prepared for

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the first time through the combination of bio-imprinting and cross-linked

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protein-coated microcrystal technology (CLPCMC). P-benzoquinone was used as the

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cross-linker for preparing the bio-imprinted CLPCMC (denoted as IM-CLPCMC).

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The morphology and the properties of the IM-CLPCMC were investigated. The

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IM-CLPCMC could remain ca. 84% of initial activity after incubated in

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n-hexane/ethanol system at 80 °C for 4 h, and remain 98% of initial activity after

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stored in n-hexane/ethanol for 120 h. These results indicated that IM-CLPCMC

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exhibited improved thermal stability and long-term stability in organic solvents.

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Furthermore, IM-CLPCMC was used as biocatalysts for producing biodiesel from

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Jatropha curcas L. oil. Under the optimal conditions, the maximum yield of biodiesel

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obtained via transesterification could reach 95.0%. After seven cycles, more than 54.7%

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of biodiesel yield can be retained. Such results demonstrated that IM-CLPCMC is a

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promising catalyst for biotechnological applications.

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Keywords ： Bio-imprinted, Cross-linked protein-coated microcrystal, Lipase,

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Biodiesel, Enzyme immobilization

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Introduction

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It is well known that a finite amount of fossil fuels could only last for a few more

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decades 1. Thus, developing renewable energy is extremely necessary. Among the

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alternative engine fuels to petroleum diesel, biodiesel has attracted much attention 2-6.

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Some chemical technologies have been industrialized for biodiesel production, while

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it can be found numerous inescapable disadvantages in these steps, for example, high

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energy consumption and waste pollution produced by catalysts such as H2SO4 or

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NaOH 7-10. Moreover, the follow-up processes such as the recovery of the glycerol, the

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separation of the inorganic salts and water from the biodiesel, and the treatments of

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alkaline or acidic wastewater are complex and need more energy 9-11.

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Fortunately, lipase-catalyzed transesterification technology can overcome the

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drawbacks of the chemical technologies due to the mild reaction conditions 11, easy

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separation of glycerol, and an ability to obtain high biodiesel yield 12-14. Until now, to

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make the catalytic activity and stability of lipases better15, there are many

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immobilized strategies such as non-covalent adsorption 16, entrapment 17, covalent

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bonding

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simplicity, amazing efficiency, and cost effectiveness, have been developed as a very

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efficient method for lipase immobilization 12, 19-20. However, PCMC exhibited some

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unsatisfactory catalytic properties due to the enzyme leakage and the partial

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miscibility in the presence of water21. To overcome these limitations, cross-linked

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protein-coated microcrystal (CLPCMC) had been designed for lipase immobilization,

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, and cross-linking

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. Protein-coated micro-crystal (PCMC), due to its

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where glutaraldehyde (GA) was cross-linking agent 2, 22-23. The activity and stability

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of the obtained CLPCMC was superior to PCMC in organic solvents without water.

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There were many available cross-linking agents, and GA was the widely used in

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various fields

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immobilization.26-27. For instance, Wang

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cross-linker to acquire robust and stable cross-linked enzyme aggregates (CLEAs) of

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lipase. The lipase CLEAs prepared by p-benzoquinone exhibited better stability than

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that used GA as cross-linker, because the existence of C-O and C-N bonds make

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CLEAs stable in acidic condition. Additionally, p-benzoquinone can dissolve in

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organic solvent, thus can avoid the addition of water in the cross-linking process and

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then avoid the re-dissolution of precipitated enzyme and microcrystals. Thus

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p-benzoquinone used in preparing CLPCMC was expected to obtain more stable

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biocatalyst with high activity recovery. Nevertheless, no literature concerning

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CLPCMC with p-benzoquinone as the cross-linker has been published until now.

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Bio-imprinting is an efficient strategy to improve the enzymatic activity and stability

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in anhydrous organic media 28. The method of bio-imprinting about enzymes was

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reported firstly by Russell and Klibanov.29. The activity of enzyme with 100-times

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enhancement was obtained in their work. After that, many reports demonstrated that

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bio-imprinting of enzymes is a rapid, simple, and effective way to obtain extremely

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robust biocatalyst in organic medium30-32. However, there is no report that uses

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bio-imprinted enzymes in the preparation of CLPCMC.

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. Some other cross-linking agents have also been used for enzyme 27

and coauthors used p-benzoquinone as

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Thus, in this work, the combination of CLPCMC and bio-imprinting was developed to

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form a novel biocatalyst of bio-imprinted cross-linked protein-coated microcrystals

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(IM-CLPCMC). Burkholderia cepacia lipase (BCL) was chosen as model enzyme

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and p-benzoquinone was chosen as the cross-linker. The preparation and the catalytic

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performances of IM-CLPCMC were investigated. The IM-CLPCMC was used as

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catalyst for producing biodiesel from Jatropha curcas L. oil and ethanol. The

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synthesis conditions were optimized. The results indicated that IM-CLPCMC showed

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high catalytic performance in transesterification reactions.

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Materials and Methods

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2.1. Materials

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Burkholderia cepacia lipase (BCL) and Novozyme 435 were purchased from

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Novozymes (Denmark). Jatropha curcas L. oil was purchased from local market.

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Fatty acid ethyl esters were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (USA). Fatty acids were

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purchased from heowns (China). Ethanol, acetone and other reagents were purchased

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from Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). All other reagents

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were used as received without further purification.

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2.2. Bio-imprinting procedure

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50 mg of BCL was added in 1 mL of phosphate buffer (100 mM, pH 7.0). A certain

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amount of fatty acid was dissolved in 0.25 mL of acetone and then added to the BCL

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2.3. Preparation of IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC

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1.5 mL of saturated solution of K2SO4 was added to the above mixture to obtain a

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combined solution. Subsequently, the above solution was added drop-wise to 20 mL

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of acetone with continuous stirring. The PCMC were separated by centrifugation

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(6000 g, 2 min), then added 10 mL of acetone and a certain amount of cross-linking

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agent (p-benzoquinone). The mixture was shaken with a speed of 200 r/min at 25 oC

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for 2.5 h. The mixture was washed with acetone thrice to remove the imprint molecule

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and unreacted p-benzoquinone. After vacuum dried for 2 h, IM-CLPCMC was

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obtained.

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CLPCMC was prepared according to the above method by using non-imprinted

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lipase.

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2.4. Assay for catalytic activity of the biocatalysts

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Esterification activities were determined by incubating 5 mL of an n-octyl alcohol

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(0.2 mL) solution and lauric acid (100 mg) in iso-octane at 40 °C with magnetic

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stirring. Reaction was started with the addition of desired amount of biocatalysts

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(IM-CLPCMC or CLPCMC) with equal protein content.

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After reacting for 2h, the residual lauric acid was monitored by titration with NaOH

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solution (20 mM). One unit of esterification activity (U) was defined as the amount of

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enzyme required to consume 1 µmol of lauric acid per hour under assay conditions.

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To investigate the thermostability, IM-CLPCMC or CLPCMC (100 mg) were

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incubated in n-hexane/ethanol system (molar ratio 1:2, 5 mL) at different

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temperatures for 4 h. The residual esterification activity was measured. And the

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activity at 30 oC was defined as 100%. The stability was explained by relativity

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activity (%). Then, long-term stability was measured by incubating 100 mg of

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IM-CLPCMC or CLPCMC in n-hexane/ethanol (5 mL) at 40 oC for a certain period.

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At certain time intervals, the residual esterification activity was detected. The initial

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activity was used as control and defined as 100%. The mechanical stability was

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measured by incubating IM-CLPCMC, CLPCMC and Novozyme 435 with same

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activity under shaking condition (200 rpm) for some time. The residual activity was

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measured by esterification. The results were explained by relative activity (%).

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2.6. Reusability of IM-CLPCMC in biodiesel production

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The reaction parameters of biodiesel production were optimized (Supporting

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Information) and the optimum conditions were as follows: molar ratio of Jatropha

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curcas L. oil to n-hexane 1:2, temperature 40 oC, molar ratio of ethanol to oil 4:1, the

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dosage of IM-CLPCMC 20% (w/w IM-CLPCMC to oil). Subsequently, the

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reusability study of IM-CLPCMC, CLPCMC and Novozyme 435 with the same

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activity of 160 U was tested by repeated use for biodiesel production under the

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optimum conditions. The biocatalysts were recovered by centrifugation, washed with

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n-hexane three times. After air-dried, they were resuspended in a fresh aliquot of

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substrates for the next catalytic cycle.

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2.7. GC analysis

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Biodiesel yields were analyzed on a shimadzu GC-2010 Plus, equipped with a flame

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ionization detector and a fused silica capillary column (RTX-1, 30 m×0.25 mm,

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Agilent Technologies). The column oven temperature was firstly kept at 160 oC for 2

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mins. Subsequently, the temperature was heated to 220 oC at a rate of 15 oC/min. After

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2 mins, The column oven temperature was increased to 280 oC at a rate of 8 oC/min

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and then maintained for 1 min. The injector temperature was set at 240 oC and

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detector temperature was at 280 oC. Nitrogen was chosen as the carrier gas at a

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constant pressure of 65.3 kPa with linear velocity at 29.1 cm/sec. The amount of

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biodiesel in the reaction mixtures was determined by comparing the retention times

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and peak areas of standard ester peaks.

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2.8. Characterization

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The Nova Nano SEM450 field-emission microscope with an accelerating voltage of 1

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kV was used to obtain scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images. A Leica TCS

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SP5 optical microscope with excitation wavelength of 488 nm and emission

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wavelength of 525 nm was used to obtain confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM)

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micrographs. Lipases were labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) and then

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used to prepare IM-CLPCMC for detecting.

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3.1. Optimizing the preparation conditions of IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC

Results and Discussion

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Primary experiments were conducted to determine the amount of crosslinking agent

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for the CLPCMC preparation, and the results were shown in Table 1. An obvious

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decrease of specific activity for the CLPCMC was observed with the increase of the

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given concentrations of cross-linker solution from 5 mM to 20 mM. The reason might

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be that a high content of cross-linker could damage enzyme structure and deactivate

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enzyme25. Subsequently, the mechanical stabilities of CLPCMC with different

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cross-linker concentration were investigated with constant shaking speed of 200 rpm

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for certain time and the residual activity was measured at different time intervals. As

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shown in Fig. 1, CLPCMC prepared with 10 and 20 mM cross-linker could retain

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above 98% of its initial activity after 10 hours, while the rest one lost nearly 30% of

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its initial activity under the same conditions. The better performance can be explained

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by that the sufficient multi-point covalent linkages make CLPCMC as robust ‘solid

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biocatalyst’ to resist the external stlimuli27. Based on the above results, 10 mM of

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cross-linker was adopted to prepare CLPCMC and IM-CLPCMC in subsequent

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experiments.

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The preparation of IM-CLPCMC was further studied and the procedure was

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optimized by tuning the amount of fatty acid. Fig. 2 showed that the imprinting

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process indeed enhance the activity of the biocatalysts. An evident increase of activity

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of IM-CLPCMC was observed with the increase of the given amount of n-decylic

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acid from 0 to 0.05 mmol. While further increase of the amount of n-decylic acid to

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0.2 mmol, the relative activity remained almost constant. Thus, 0.05 mmol of fatty

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acid was used for further experiments. To study the influence of fatty acids with the 9



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carbon chain length on the activity of the lipase, BCL was imprinted with fatty acids

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to fabricate IM-CLPCMC. The specific activity of each biocatalyst was evaluated

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through esterification and the results were shown in Table 2. In comparison with

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non-imprinted BCL, the specific activities of IM-CLPCMC were significantly

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enhanced in range of 25.4%-53.8%, respectively. The molecular mechanism of the

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bio-imprinting on improving enzyme’s performance was as follows. After the

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combination of lipase’s active site with the imprint molecule in an aqueous solution,

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small conformational changes was considered to happen. When the imprint molecule

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is washed away by an essentially anhydrous organic solvent, the lipase cannot return

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its former conformation because of the rigid structure. This bio-imprinting process

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could make the three-dimensional structure of the lipase keep ‘frozen’ in a modified

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form and then improve lipase’s catalytic performance in anhydrous or microaqueous

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organic solvents30. Additionally, the activity enhancement was related to the carbon

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chain length, which was consistent with the previous report 30. As can be seen in

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Table 2, BCL imprinted with n-hexylic acid (a C6-acid) had a very slight activity

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enhancement, but the activation effect of n-decylic acid (a C10-acid) was significant.

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The reasonable explanations of the activity enhancement of the IM-CLPCMC

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imprinted with n-decylic acid may be attributed to two reasons: one is the similarity to

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the substrate of enzyme and the suitable solubility of n-decylic acid in the aqueous

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phase. The other is the formation of lipase IM-CLPCMC with a activated

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conformation that is favorable for catalysis 33. Therefore, n-decylic acid was chosen as

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3.2 Operational stability of immobilized lipase

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Thermostability: The thermal stabilities of IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC were

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described in Fig. 3. The activity of the two biocatalysts kept at 30 oC was defined as

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100%. The two biocatalysts showed highest activities at 40 oC and the activities were

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decreased with increasing the incubation temperature in n-hexane/ethanol system (Fig.

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3a). Compared to IM-CLPCMC, a faster inactivation rate was observed for CLPCMC

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at the tested temperatures. When temperature was changed to 80 oC, IM-CLPCMC in

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n-hexane/ethanol remained 84% of initial activity, while only 63% of initial activity

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was kept for CLPCMC after 4 h. Subsequently, CLPCMC lost about 55% of its

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original activity after 8 h, while IM-CLPCMC could retain more than 65% of its

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activity under the same condition (Fig. 3b). Thus, the halftime of CLPCMC and

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IM-CLPCMC were nearly about 7 h and 11 h incubating in n-hexane/ethanol system

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at 80 oC, respectively. The higher activity retention for IM-CLPCMC than that of

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CLPCMC can be ascribed to the fact that molecular bio-imprinting was an effective

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method to improve enzymatic activity and stability in organic media 33.

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Organic solvent stability: Long-term stabilities of IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC were

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also investigated. The initial activities of IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC were defined

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as 100%. As shown in Fig. 4, after incubated in n-hexane/ethanol system for 120 h,

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the IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC retained nearly 98% and 90% of their initial

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activities, respectively. All the results indicated that there were slight improvements of

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thermal stabilities and long-term stabilities through imprinting process. It is

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interesting to note that hyper activation was observed for the immobilized lipase in

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n-hexane/ethanol for a period time. The organic solvent system could facilitate the

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conformational change of lipase hyper activation by keeping water layer on the

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surface 34-35.

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3.3 Characterization of IM-CLPCMC

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SEM was used to investigate the physical characteristics of IM-CLPCMC. As shown

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in Fig. 5a, the IM-CLPCMC particles were in the form of aggregate of crystals and

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the size of the IM-CLPCMC was about 1~2.5 µm in diameter, which was smaller than

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the previously reported PCMC-lipase 19. The surface of IM-CLPCMC was rough

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indicating lipase molecule aggregation on the salt crystals. The overall surface of

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IM-CLPCMC was different to the K2SO4 salt (Fig. 5b).

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To further confirm the lipase was immobilized on the surface of the salt crystals,

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lipase molecules were labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) before the

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formation of IM-CLPCMC. Confocal image (Fig. S1) showed that the FITC-labeled

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BCL molecules were distributed on the microcrystals homogeneously, indicating the

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successful immobilization of BCL.

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3.4. Reusability of IM-CLPCMC in biodiesel production

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Jatropha curcas L. oil and ethanol was selected to synthesize biodiesel and the

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reaction conditions were optimized (Fig. S2-S5). Under the optimal conditions, the

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reusability of IM-CLPCMC was studied. As control experiments, CLPCMC and 12


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Novozyme 435 were used to synthesize biodiesel at the same conditions. Fig. 6

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showed that the maximum yields of biodiesel (based on Jatropha curcas L. oil) were

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96.4%, 95.0%, and 85.7% for the first run that catalyzed by Novozyme 435,

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IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC, respectively. The improved yield catalyzed by

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IM-CLPCMC in comparison with CLPCMC may due to the activation that caused by

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the bio-imprinting procedure 30. After seven cycles, the biodiesel yields that catalyzed

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by Novozyme 435, IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC dropped to 79.8%, 54.7%, and

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47.2%, respectively. The results indicated that Novozyme 435 exhibited the best

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catalytic activity and recycling stability. IM-CLPCMC showed enhanced catalytic

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performance over time when it was compared with CLPCMC. The activity loss for

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IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC in cycles might be the mechanical inactivation caused

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by shearing force, as well as adverse factors such as methanol deactivation and the

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loss of lipases during centrifugation and wash procedures21, 36-37. In order to confirm

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the reason, the mechanical stabilities of IM-CLPCMC, CLPCMC and Novezyme 435

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were measured by continuous shaking (200 rpm) for 60 h in n-hexane/ethanol system

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(Fig. 7). CLPCMC lost 33% of its initial activity after 60 h, while IM-CLPCMC

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could retain 78% of its initial activity. Novozyme 435, a high enzyme loading located

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in the acrylate-based polymer Lewatit VP OC 1600

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activity. The results indicated that the mechanical stability of Novozyme 435 was

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better than that of IM-CLPCMC. Thus, the mechanical stability of the IM-CLPCMC

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still requires better understanding and further improvement.

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, retained 86% of the original

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Subsequently, the comparison of biodiesel production using IM-CLPCMC and several

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other lipase systems in related studies for the transesterification is shown in Table 3.

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Using the other immobilized BCL system, a 98% yield of biodiesel could be reached

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with a process time of 48 h. While IM-CLPCMC gave a yield of 95% for biodiesel

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production only in 8 h. Thus, the short reaction time and high biodiesel yield obtained

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in this work could confirm the advantages of the IM-CLPCMC though the different

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feedstocks and reaction conditions were adopted in the literatures. All the results

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indicated

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transesterification reactions through the combination of CLPCMC and bio-imprinting.

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It should be noted that the lipase used for preparing IM-CLPCMC in this study was

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Burkholderia cepacia lipase, which was different from Novozyme 435 (Candida

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antarctica lipase). Compared to Novozyme 435, the preparation of IM-CLPCMC was

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easy, fast and cheap 39. The low cost and high catalytic efficiency made IM-CLPCMC

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a promising biocatalyst for enzymatic synthesis of biodiesel compared to Novozyme

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435 and other immobilization methods.

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4. Conclusions

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The successful preparation of immobilized lipase through the combination of

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bio-imprinting and cross-linked protein-coated microcrystal technology has been

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demonstrated for the first time. The immobilized lipase IM-CLPCMC was used for

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producing biodiesel from Jatropha curcas L. oil through transesterification. Various

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parameters of biodiesel production were optimized, and the highest yield of biodiesel

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IM-CLPCMC

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catalytic

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performance

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could reach 95.0%. The biodiesel yields catalyzed by IM-CLPCMC were

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considerably enhanced compared to CLPCMC. Thus, bio-imprinted cross-linked

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protein-coated microcrystals can be potential biocatalyst for industrial production of

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biodiesel.

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Supporting Information

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CLSM of IM-CLPCMC, effect of the molar ratio of oil/n-hexane on biodiesel yield,

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effect of temperature on the yield of biodiesel, effect of ethanol/ oil molar ratio on the

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yield of biodiesel, effect of the dosage of IM-CLPCMC on yield of biodiesel. This

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material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.

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Notes

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The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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Acknowledgements

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This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Nos.

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21276060, 21276062, 21106164 and 21576068), the Natural Science Foundation of

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Tianjin (13JCYBJC18500), the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province

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(B2015202082 and B2016202027), the Science and Technology Research Project for

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Colleges and Universities in Hebei Province (YQ2013025) and Tianjin City High

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School Science & Technology Fund Planning Project (20140513).

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Figure captions

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Figure 1 Effect of cross-linker concentration on stability of the CLPCMC

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Figure 2 Effect of fatty acid amount on activity of the IM-CLPCMC

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Figure 3 Thermal stabilities (a) and thermal stability at 80 oC (b) of IM-CLPCMC

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and CLPCMC

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Figure 4 Long-term stabilities of IM-CLPCMC and CLPCMC

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Figure 5 SEM images of (a) IM-CLPCMC and (b) K2SO4

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Figure 6 Reusability of biocatalysts in biodiesel production (The reaction conditions:

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Jatropha curcas L. oil 500 mg, molar ratio of ethanol to oil 4:1, 20% of biocatalyst

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dosage to oil content, molar ratio of oil to n-hexane 1:2, 40 oC)

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Figure 7 Mechanical stabilities of IM-CLPCMC, CLPCMC and Novozyme 435

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Tables

Table 1 Effect of cross-linker concentration on activity of the CLPCMC

Cross-linker concentration(mM)

Specific activity(µmol/h•g CLPCMC)

5

1155±29

10

1038±32

20

941±26

3

4

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Table 2 Influence of bio-imprinting with fatty acids on the activity of the

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IM-CLPCMC

Fatty acids Specific

Non-imprinted n-hexylic

activity

n-caprylic acid

n-decylic acid

lauric acid

1538±11

1597±26

1509±17

IM-CLPCMC acid

U(µmol/h•g 1038±31

1302±26

IM-CLPCMC)

3

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Table 3 Comparison of the biodiesel production conditions and performance of

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IM-CLPCMC with other immobilized BCL systems reported in the literatures Immobilization methods

feedstocks

alcohols

molar ratio alcohol/oil

Temperatur e (oC)

Reaction time

Yield s

fixed-bed reactor

soybean oil

alcohol

3:1

50

46

95

40

Adsorption

babassu oil

ethanol

7:1

39

48

98

41

Adsorption

olive oil

alcohol

4:1

25

12

70

42

Adsorption

olive oil

ethanol

4:1

30

30

90

43

CLPCMC

waste cooking oil

alcohol

3:1

40

9

72

21

IM-CLPCMC

Jatropha curcas L oil

ethanol

4:1

40

8

95

3

25


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Figures

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Relative activity(%)

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2 3 4

5mM 20mM 10mM

60

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4

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0.10

0.15

0.20

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2 3 4

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Figure 2

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IM-CLPCMC CLPCMC

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40

50

60

70

b

100 80 60 40

IM-CLPCMC CLPCMC

20 0

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IM-CLPCMC(n-hexane/ethanol) CLPCMC(n-hexane/ethanol)

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