Abstract

Peracetic acid (PAA) is widely used in sterilization, bleaching textile industry, environmental engineering, chemical synthesis, and biomimetic chemistry. A previous study reported that acetyl xylan esterase (AXE) of Bacillus subtilis CICC 20034 has high activity toward cephalosporin C and 7-aminocephalosporanic acid. In this study, we found that AXE also exhibited high perhydrolysis activity toward acetate esters and endowed itself with great industrial interest on enzyme-catalyzed preparation of PAA. Recombinant AXE of B. subtilis CICC 20034 could be efficiently produced in a low-cost autoinduction medium with an activity of 6.8×103U/mL. The reaction conditions for the optimal synthesis of PAA were as follows: 0.30mg/mL AXE crude enzyme, 300mM glycerol triacetate, and 1M hydrogen peroxide, pH 8.0, and 20°C, which produced approximately 150mM of PAA within 5min. The AXE was then immobilized on an acrylate amino resin; the activity of the immobilized AXE was 383.7U/g. In the presence of 1g/mL of immobilized AXE resin, PAA titer of the initial reaction batch was approximately 142.5mM, and about 95.5mM of PAA could be produced after 10 cycles.

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