Preparation of stabilized catalase enzymes with a surfactant

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9481879-B2
Application number	US-201414186154-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 21, 2014
Priority date	Jun 26, 2012
Publication date	Nov 1, 2016
Grant date	Nov 1, 2016

Abstract

There is provided a method of producing a stabilized microcrystalline cellulose powder containing catalase enzyme. In the method, cellulose is thoroughly mixed with phosphate borate and catalase, rinsed with water and a surfactant added. The stabilized powder may be mixed with various skin solutions (lotions, ointments and the like). The catalase enzyme can catalyze the reaction of peroxide to oxygen.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of preparing stabilized catalase enzyme comprising the steps of mixing a substrate comprising microcrystalline cellulose powder, a buffer, and catalase enzyme having a molecular weight of less than 500,000 Daltons to create a mixture including solids and liquid, draining the liquid from the mixture, rinsing the solids with water, and then adding a surfactant to the washed solids, wherein the stabilized catalase enzyme exhibits a decreased loss in catalase activity compared to catalase enzyme not mixed with the substrate and the surfactant, wherein the stabilized catalase enzyme has an activity at 25° C. between 500 IU/g and 1,000,000 IU/g, and wherein the stabilized catalase enzyme is stable for up to 12 weeks at 35° C. after thermal cycling of the stabilized catalase enzyme at 40° C. for 72 hours and 55° C. for 6 hours.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said catalase enzyme includes manganese atoms.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said catalase enzyme is obtained from fungus.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the fungus is Aspergillus niger.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the surfactant comprises Tween 20.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the stabilized catalase enzyme can decompose from 60% to 95% of hydrogen peroxide after thermal cycling when the ratio of the stabilized catalase enzyme to hydrogen peroxide is 1:1.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the buffer comprises phosphate and borate.

Assignees

• Avent Inc

Inventors

• Karandikar Bhalchandra M
• Macwana Sunita J
• Zhao Zhongju Liu

Classifications

• C12Y111/01006

  Catalase (1.11.1.6) · CPC title

• C12N9/0065

  acting on hydrogen peroxide as acceptor (1.11) · CPC title

• C12N9/96 Primary

  Stabilising an enzyme by forming an adduct or a composition; Forming enzyme conjugates · CPC title