Développement d’un microréacteur à base d’enzyme microencapsulée en vue d’un
couplage en ligne à un système d’électrophorèse capillaire
The principal objective of this research project is to study the efficiency of microencapsulation, technique used for enzyme immobilization in order to create new types of electrochemical biosensors. Generally, the target analyte involved either produces or consumes electrons and the electrochemical response is measured to identify or quantify the analyte. In the development of a biosensor, it is desirable to quantify the conversion of substrate (analyte) and/or the formation of product of the enzymatic reaction. The structural similarity between substrate and product in redox reactions means that the technique used to determine these species must be very selective. The high resolving power of capillary electrophoresis (CE) for rapidly separating similar compounds is thus an attractive method, particularly if substrate and product can both be monitored during or following the reaction catalyzed by microencapsulated enzyme. A judicious choice of substrate with respect to its behaviour in CE separations can help provide information on enzyme activity as well as microencapsulation efficiency. To achieve this, we chose the substrate o-phenylenediamine (OPD), which is oxidized by laccase to form the product 2,3-diaminophenazine (DAP) concomitant with the reduction of molecular oxygen to water. We firstly prepared the microcapsules and evaluate the impact of microencapsulation on the behaviour of the enzyme. After that, we developed a CE based separation method to quantify the conversion of OPD to DAP by free laccase. We also used the CE method to characterize laccase immobilized in microcapsules. Subsequent, the microencapsulated laccase was packed into a microreactor format permitting its off-line coupling with CE as a means to follow the enzymatic reaction. Finally, we tried to implement the on-line system and the preliminaries results are presented.
Laccase Microencapsulation Ortho-phenylènediamine 2,3-diaminophenazine 2-hydroxy-3-aminophenazine Laccase Microencapsulation Immobilized enzymes On-line microreactor Capillary electrophoresis Ortho-phenylenediamine 2,3-diaminophenazine 2-hydroxy-3-aminophenazine