Dendrimer-induced synthesis of porous organosilica capsules for enzyme encapsulation

Abstract

Organic matter-induced mineralization is a green and versatile method for synthesizing hybrid nanostructured materials, where the material properties are mainly influenced by the species of natural biomolecules, linear synthetic polymer, or small molecules, limiting their diversity. Herein, we adopted dendrimer poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) as the inducer to synthesize organosilica-PAMAM network (OSPN) capsules for mannose isomerase (MIase) encapsulation based on a hard-templating method. The structure of OSPN capsules can be precisely regulated by adjusting the molecular weight and concentration of PAMAM, thereby demonstrating a substantial impact on the kinetic behavior of the MIase@OSPN system. The MIase@OSPN system was used for catalytic production of mannose from D-fructose. A mannose yield of 22.24% was obtained, which is higher than that of MIase in organosilica network capsules and similar to that of the free enzyme. The overall catalytic efficiency (k_cat/K_m) of the MIase@OSPN system for the substrate D-fructose was up to 0.556 s⁻¹·mmol⁻¹·L. Meanwhile, the MIase@OSPN system showed excellent stability and recyclability, maintaining more than 50% of the yield even after 12 cycles.

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Keywords

enzyme immobilization / enzyme catalysis / organosilica networks / capsules / sugar biosynthesis

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Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2021YFC2102300), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFC2105902), Tianjin Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation Capacity Improvement Project (Grant No. TSBICIP-KJGG-003), Open Funding Project of the State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering of China (Grant No. 2020KF-06), and Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations.

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