Propitious catalytic response of immobilized α-amylase from G. thermoleovorans in modified APTES-Fe3O4 NPs for industrial bio-processing.

Challenges in enzyme and product recovery are currently intriguing in modern biotechnology. Coping enzyme stability, shelf life and efficiency, nanomaterials-based immobilization were epitomized of industrial practice. Herein, a α-amylase from Geobacillus thermoleovorans was purified and bound effectively on to a modified 3-Aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES)-Fe3O4 nanoparticle. It was revealed that the carrier-bound enzyme catalysis (pH 8 and 60 °C) was significant in contrast to the free enzyme (pH 7.5 and 55 °C). Furthermore, Zn2+ and Cu2+ were shown to cause inhibitory effects in both enzyme states. Unlike chloroform, toluene, benzene, and butanol, minimal effects were observed with ethanol, acetone, and hexane. The bound enzyme retained 27.4 % of its initial activity after being stored for 36 days. In addition, the reusability of the bound enzyme showed a gradual decline in activity after the first cycle; however, after 13 cycles, its residual activity at 53 % was observed. These data proved significant enough to use this enzyme for industrial starch and analogous substrate bio-processing.

Fabrication, depiction, DNA interaction, anti-bacterial, DFT and molecular docking studies of Co(II) and Cu(II) complexes of 3-methyl-1-phenyl-4-[(E)-(pyridin-2-yl)diazenyl]-1H-pyrazol-5-ol ligand.

Cobalt(II) and copper(II) complexes of the (3-methyl-1-phenyl-4-[E-(1iazinyl-2-yl)1iazinyl]-1H-pyrazole-5-ol) ligand were obtained by the diazotization reaction of 5-methyl-2-phenyl-2,4-dihydro-3H-pyrazol-3-one with 2-amino pyridine. The synthesized compounds were confirmed by analytical, and spectroscopic analyses (like, UV-Visible, FT-IR, NMR, and mass spectroscopy). Calf thymus DNA interaction with metal complexes is inspected by UV-Visible spectra, viscosity measurements, and thermal denaturation techniques. The intrinsic binding constant (Kb) was found to be 1.17 × 106 M-1, and 0.98 × 106 M-1 for Co(II) and Cu(II) complexes respectively. The Cleavage of pUC-19 DNA was monitored by gel electrophoresis. The computerized in silico molecular dockage studies of the composites with the target receptor Glu-6p and results showed that the compounds are potent drugs for the target enzyme. Further, the optimized structure of the azo dye ligand was obtained by the density functional theory (DFT) by Gaussian09 program by the RB3LYP at 6-311 G (++, g, d, p) basis set. Furthermore, screened for the bacterial action in contradiction of pathogenic organism's gram-negative Klebsiella pneumonia, gram-positive Bacillus subtills by a diffusion method.Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/15257770.2021.1991373 .