Formation of spherical chitosan biocatalysts by ionotropic gelation

✍ Scribed by K.-D. Vorlop; J. Klein

• Book ID: 104632381
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 516 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-5492
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00127253

✦ Synopsis

A new immobilization method is described using the ionotropic gelation of a polycation (chitosan) with different multivalent anionic counterions. Immobilized E-coli cells with tryptophan synthetase show~ 57 % of the initial activity.