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. 2015 Mar;37(3):705-10.
doi: 10.1007/s10529-014-1721-0. Epub 2014 Nov 12.

Development of a microtiter plate-based assay for the detection of lipase-catalyzed transesterifications in organic solvents

Martin Pöhnlein  1 , Tim Finkbeiner, Christoph Syldatk, Rudolf Hausmann
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Development of a microtiter plate-based assay for the detection of lipase-catalyzed transesterifications in organic solvents

Martin Pöhnlein et al. Biotechnol Lett. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

A microtiter plate-based assay was developed to evaluate the ability of lipases to perform transesterifications when employed in different organic solvents. A 4-nitrophenol assay was carried out employing seven different lipase formulations and two fatty acid methyl esters with different chain lengths in a total of six organic solvents with logP values approximately between 1 and -1. This assay delivered results within comparatively short times measured by a color reaction and thus facilitates the choice of an enzyme-solvent combination for the synthesis of glycolipids. To validate the findings, glycolipid syntheses were performed using the same lipase formulation in the same solvents. When comparing the results obtained using the microtiter plate-based assay to the results of the glycolipid syntheses using the same lipases and solvents, matching results were obtained.

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