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Synthesis of partial glycerides rich in α-linolenic acid efficiently from silkworm pupa oil with immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A

Abstract

In this paper the ability of immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A to prepare α-linolenic acid-rich partial glycerides was studied. The effects of different reaction conditions on the yield of Diacylglycerol (DAG) and Monoglyceride (MAG) were investigated, including substrate molar ratio, substrate concentration, temperature and lipase dosage. The highest yield (63.92% of MAG and 30.61% of DAG) was obtained when silkworm pupa oil/glycerol ratio of 1:3, lipase dosage was 50 U/g, substrate concentration was 40% (w/v), at 40 °C. Under the optimal conditions, the scale-up (50 times) and single-stage molecular distillation were carried out to separate DAG and MAG, the yield of MAG in the light phase was 99.18%, and the concentration of DAG in the heavy phase was 89.47%, α-linolenic acid in MAG and DAG accounted for

28.96% and 28.23%, respectively. The results can be shown that the immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A has excellent potential for enzymatic glycerolysis to prepare functional partial glycerides.

Keywords:
lipase; glycerolysis; partial glycerides; silkworm pupa oil

1 Introduction

Lipase can catalyze various reactions, such as hydrolysis, esterification, transesterification, acidolysis, alcoholysis and aminolysis, and has good biological properties (Li et al., 2016Li, X., Li, D., Wang, W., Durrani, R., Yang, B., & Wang, Y. (2016). Immobilization of SMG1-F278N lipase onto a novel epoxy resin: characterization and its application in synthesis of partial glycerides. Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic, 133, 154-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molcatb.2016.08.011.
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). Due to its excellent catalytic performance, including regioselectivity, enantioselectivity and stereoselectivity, as well as high specificity and activity under mild reaction conditions, it has been applied to various industries (Rodrigues et al., 2013Rodrigues, R. C., Ortiz, C., Berenguer-Murcia, Á., Torres, R., & Fernández-Lafuente, R., (2013). Modifying enzyme activity and selectivity by immobilization. Chemical Society Reviews, 42(15), 6290-6307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2CS35231A. PMid:23059445.
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). Partial glyceride lipase has become a research hotspot because it can be used to efficiently prepare partial glycerides (DAG and MAG) and remove partial glycerides from glyceride mixtures (Singh & Mukhopadhyay, 2014Singh, A. K., & Mukhopadhyay, M. (2014). Immobilization of Candida antarctica lipase onto cellulose acetate-coated Fe2O3 nanoparticles for glycerolysis of olive oil. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 31(7), 1225-1232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11814-014-0020-8.
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; Bavaro et al., 2020Bavaro, T., Benucci, I., Pedrali, A., Marrubini, G., Esti, M., Terreni, M., Massolini, G., & Ubiali, D. (2020). Lipase-mediated hydrolysis of hempseed oil in a packed-bed reactor and in-line purification of PUFA as mono- and diacylglycerols. Food and Bioproducts Processing, 123, 345-353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fbp.2020.07.009.
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). However, the types of partial glyceride lipase are extremely rare. Therefore, it is of great significance to develop an alternative partial glyceride lipase.

At present, partial glycerides were prepared by enzymatic glycerolysis in solvent-free systems, organic solvent systems, supercritical CO2 systems and the addition of surfactants. However, the effects of most reactions are not satisfactory. Li Yue et al. (Li et al., 2018Li, Y., Zhong, N., Cheong, L.-Z., Huang, J., Chen, H., & Lin, S. (2018). Immobilization of Candida antarctica Lipase B onto organically-modified SBA-15 for efficient production of soybean-based mono and diacylglycerols. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 120(Pt A), 886-895. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.08.155. PMid:30172818.
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) used Candida antarctica lipase B to catalyze the glycerolysis of soybean oil for 24 h in a solvent-free system, the yields of DAG and MAG were 64.28% and 20.15%, respectively. But the shortcomings of the solvent-free system were also obvious, the mass transfer effect between glycerin and glyceride was very poor. Wang Weifei et al. (Wang et al., 2011Wang, W., Li, T., Ning, Z., Wang, Y., Yang, B., & Yang, X. (2011). Production of extremely pure diacylglycerol from soybean oil by lipase-catalyzed glycerolysis. Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 49(2), 192-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enzmictec.2011.05.001. PMid:22112408.
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) used Novozym 435 to enzymatically glycerolize soybean oil in a tert-butanol system to prepare DAG, the conversion rate of soybean oil and the yield of DAG reached 98.7% and 48.5% at 24 h, respectively. Although the final reaction yield has increased, the reaction time was too long. Valério et al. (2010)Valério, A., Rovani, S., Treichel, H., de Oliveira, D., & Oliveira, J. V. (2010). Optimization of mono and diacylglycerols production from enzymatic glycerolysis in solvent-free systems. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 33(7), 805-812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00449-009-0402-1. PMid:20091052.
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explored the use of immobilized lipase (Novozym 435) and the surfactant (Tween 65) to produce MAG and DAG from emulsified the two reactants into reverse micelles (glycerol-in-oil) before using Lipozyme 435 enzymatic glycerolization of fish oil to improve the process efficiency of the SC-CO2 medium and the mass transfer of glycerol/oil in the three-phase system, and produced about 75% of MAG and DAG within 1 h. It was not difficult to see that the types and reaction efficiency of lipases available in the process of preparing partial glycerides by enzymatic glycerolysis were two major problems. In addition, in many literature reports on enzymatic glycerolysis, the most commonly used immobilized lipase was Novozym 435. The reason was that there were very few lipases that were suitable for catalyzing the reaction of alcohols and esters. Lipase MAS1 was a newly developed biocatalyst with excellent catalytic properties in recent years. It has been proved to have excellent esterification ability, but there was no report about its catalytic ability in glycerolysis reaction.

In the process of studying the activation mechanism of lipase MAS1, our laboratory discovered a mutant lipase (MAS1-H108A) with an enzyme activity of 500 U/g. In order to evaluate the potential ability of MAS1-H108A to catalyze glycerolysis reaction to prepare α-linolenic acid-rich partial glycerides, three commercial immobilized lipases (Novozym 435, Lipozyme TLIM and Lipozyme RMIM) and MAS1-H108A were compared, and the effects of substrate molar ratio, substrate concentration, temperature and lipase dosage on the glycerolysis reaction were investigated when MAS1-H108A was used as a catalyst. At the same time, after scale-up reaction and molecular distillation purification, the yield change of partial glycerides with time and the influence of glycerolysis on the fatty acid composition in oil were discussed, and finally satisfactory results were obtained.

2 Experiments

2.1 Materials

The pPICZαA-MAS1-X33 expression strain was stored at −80 °C in our laboratory. Novozym 435、Lipozyme TLIM and Lipozyme RMIM were obtained from Novo Nordisk (Den-Mark). Silkworm pupa oil (TAG > 98%) was provided by the Institute of Sericulture and Agricultural Product Processing, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Hexane, 2-propanol, and formic acid (all chromatographic grades) were purchased from Kermel Chemical Reagent Co, Ltd. (Tianjin,China). Methanolic boron trifluoride solution (15% BF3) and standards of monooleoylglycerol, dioleoylglycerol (15% of 1,2-dioleoylglycerol and 85% of 1,3-dioleoylglycerol), and 37-component fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) mix (C4-C24) were sourced from Sigma-Aldrich. Other chemicals are of analytical grade.

2.2 Glycerolysis of silkworm pupa oil by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A

Four immobilized lipases were selected to catalyze the glycerolysis of silkworm pupa oil to prepare partial glycerides. The effects of the substrate concentration (20% (w/v), 30% (w/v), 40% (w/v), 50% (w/v) and 60% (w/v)), the silkworm pupa oil:glycerol ratio (1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, 1:5), reaction temperature (30 °C, 40 °C, 50 °C and 60 °C) and lipase dosages (25 U/ g, 50 U/g, 75 U/g, 100 U/g and 125 U/g) were investigated, respectively. Samples were collected periodically (per 2 h) till 8 h of reaction and were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).

The yield of each component was expressed as the percentage of the peak area determined by HPLC, and the calculation methods were as (1),(2),(3) and (4):

M A G y i e l d % = MAG(%) MAG(%) + DAG(%) + TAG(%) × 100 (1)
D A G y i e l d % = DAG(%) MAG(%) + DAG(%) + TAG(%) × 100 (2)
T A G y i e l d % = TAG(%) MAG(%) + DAG(%) + TAG(%) × 100 (3)

The method for calculating the conversion rate of TAG was as follows:

T A G c o n v e r s i o n r a t e % = X 2 -X 1 X 2 × 100 (4)

X1——The yield of TAG in the product;

X2——The yield of TAG in raw materials.

2.3 Scale-up reaction

A scale-up experiment (50 times) for the preparation of partial glycerides from glycerolized silkworm pupa oil was carried out to verify its application prospects in production. Under optimized single factor conditions, the substrate mass was expanded to 500 g. The container with the substrate was placed in a magnetic constant temperature water bath stirring pot with a stirring rate of 150 rpm/min, and HPLC was used to determine the components of the reaction system regularly.

2.4 Separation of DAG and MAG by single-stage molecular distillation

The organic solvent (tert-butanol) in the reaction system was evaporated and recovered by a rotary evaporator under vacuum. After obtaining the upper oil sample, it was separated by single-stage molecular distillation (produced by VTA, Germany) to purify DAG and MAG in grease, the distillation pressure was 1Pa, the distillation temperature was 180 °C, the speed of the scraper was 400 rpm/min, and the feed rate was 2 mL/min.

2.5 Analysis of the composition of the reaction mixture by HPLC

The analysis of the composition of the reaction mixtures was carried out using a normal-phase HPLC equipped with a refractive index detector and a Phenomenex Luna column (250 mm × 4.6 mm i.d., 5 μm particle size) according to the method previously described by Li et al. (2015)Li, D., Qin, X., Wang, J., Yang, B., Wang, W., Huang, W., & Wang, Y. (2015). Hydrolysis of soybean oil to produce diacylglycerol by a lipase from Rhizopus oryzae. Journal of Molecular Catalysis. B, Enzymatic, 115, 43-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molcatb.2015.01.009.
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. with a minor modification. The mobile phase consisted of n-hexane, isopropanol and formic acid (21:1:0.003, by vol) with a flow rate of 1 mL/min. Peaks in HPLC were evaluated by comparison of their retention times with those known standards.

In this study, the yield of each component was expressed as the percentage of the peak area determined by HPLC, and the calculation methods were as II-B.

2.6 Determination of fatty acid composition in silkworm pupa oil and reaction products by GC

The silkworm pupa oil and reaction products were initially methylated to Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) according to the method described by Wang et al. (2010)Wang, Y.-H., Mai, Q.-Y., Qin, X.-L., Yang, B., Wang, Z.-L., & Chen, H.-T. (2010). Establishment of an evaluation model for human milk fat substitutes. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 58(1), 642-649. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jf903048p. PMid:20000702.
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. Then, FA composition of the final FAME product was determined using GC (Agilent 7890A) equipped with a capillary column CP-Sil 88 (60 mm × 0.25 mm, 0.2 μm). The detailed analysis was carried out according to the method described by Qin et al. (2011)Qin, X. L., Wang, Y. M., Wang, Y. H., Huang, H. H., & Yang, B. (2011). Preparation and characterization of 1,3-Dioleoyl-2-palmitoylglycerol. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 59(10), 5714-5719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jf200398f. PMid:21510711.
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.

2.7 Statistical analysis

All experiments were carried in triplicate. The results were presented as the means ± standard deviations (SD). The statistical significance of differences was measured by a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).

3 Results and discussion

3.1 Comparison of four immobilized lipases on the glycerolysis

Lipozyme RMIM, Immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A, Lipozyme TLIM, and Novozym 435, were used to the preparation of partial glycerides, under the reaction conditions of the substrate molar ratio of silkworm pupa oil to glycerol was 1:3, the substrate concentration (tert-butanol as organic solvent) was 40% (w/v), lipase dosage was 50 U/g (Lauric acid esterification activity is 500 U/g), and at 40 °C for 6 h. Table 1 compares the ability of the four immobilized lipases to catalyze the glycerolysis of silkworm pupa oil and glycerol to produce partial glycerides. It could be seen that the TAG conversion efficiency of MAS1-H108A was the highest, which reached 94.53%. The TAG conversion efficiency of Novozym 435, Lipozyme TLIM, Lipozyme RMIM were 85.92%, 36.29%, 32.84%, respectively. Moreover, immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A showed similar resistance to organic solvents as Novozym 435 (Dalla Rosa et al., 2009Dalla Rosa, C., Morandim, M. B., Ninow, J. L., Oliveira, D., Treichel, H., & Oliveira, J. V. (2009). Continuous lipase-catalyzed production of fatty acid ethyl esters from soybean oil in compressed fluids. Bioresource Technology, 100(23), 5818-5826. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2009.06.081. PMid:19616937.
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), the enzyme activity of them will be reduced in the tert-butanol system. However, in this study, the catalytic performance was better than that of Novozym 435. This might because the immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A has stronger non-position selectivity than Novozym 435 (Wang et al., 2017Wang, X., Li, D., Qu, M., Durrani, R., Yang, B., & Wang, Y. (2017). Immobilized MAS1 lipase showed high esterification activity in the production of triacylglycerols with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Food Chemistry, 216, 260-267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.08.041. PMid:27596418.
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), which will strengthen catalyze acyl transfer. Therefore, immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A was selected as the catalyst in the subsequent experiments.

Table 1
Preparation of partrial glycerides by glycerolysis of silkworm pupa oil by four different immolibilized lipases.

The reaction mixture that was used in the reaction system, was stirred at 40°C, included 10 g of glycerol and silkworm pupa oil (3:1 M ratio), 25 mL tert-butyl alcohol and 1 g of lipase .

3.2 Glycerolysis of silkworm pupa oil by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A

Effect of different substrate molar ratios on the glycerolysis

The effect of substrates molar ratio on the glycerolysis of silkworm pupa oil catalyzed by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A is shown in Figure 1. When the molar ratio of silkworm pupa oil and glycerol was increased from 1:1 to 1:3, the yield of partial glycerides was increased significantly. And the highest yield (95%) of partial glycerides was obtained when the silkworm pupa oil:glycerol ratio reached to 1:3. This might be due to insufficient glycerol addition made the reaction reach the equilibrium point in advance, which resulted many residual silkworm pupa oil. When increased silkworm pupa oil:glycerol ratio to 1:4 and 1:5, the yield of partial glycerides were less than that of silkworm pupa oil:glycerol ratio of 1:3. The reason maybe as the glycerol yield increases, the mass transfer of the system will become difficult (Krüger et al., 2010Krüger, R. L., Valério, A., Balen, M., Ninow, J. L., Vladimir Oliveira, J., de Oliveira, D., & Corazza, M. L. (2010). Improvement of mono and diacylglycerol production via enzymatic glycerolysis in tert-butanol system. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, 112(8), 921-927. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejlt.200900253.
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). Thus, the silkworm pupa oil:glycerol ratio of 1:3 was selected as the reaction condition in the subsequent research.

Figure 1
Effect of substrate molar ratio on silkworm pupa oil catalyzed by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A.

Effect of different substrate concentrations on the glycerolysis

Tert-butanol can be used as a reaction solvent to improve the miscibility of the substrate, enhance the mass transfer function, and increase the reaction rate and the reaction efficiency (Zeng et al., 2010Zeng, F., Yang, B., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Ning, Z., & Li, L. (2010). Enzymatic production of monoacylglycerols with camellia oil by the glycerolysis reaction. Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, 87(5), 531-537. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11746-009-1533-x.
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).The effect of substrate concentration on the glycerolysis of silkworm pupa oil catalyzed by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A is shown in Figure 2. It could be clearly seen that yield of partial glycerides with a substrate concentration of 20% (w/v) was the lowest. It indicated that a larger substrate concentration was beneficial to the reaction. When the substrate concentration was boosted to 40% (w/v), 95.54% of the glyceride yield was reached and the system was most stable and clearest. The partial glyceride yield of 50% (w/v) and 60% (w/v) of the substrate concentration showed no significantly differences and were lower than that of substrate concentration of 40% (w/v). Therefore, in the subsequent study, a substrate concentration of 40% (w/v) was selected as the reaction condition.

Figure 2
Effect of substrate concentration on silkworm pupa oil catalyzed by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A.

Effect of different temperature on the glycerolysis

Figure 3 shows the effect of temperature on the glycerolysis of silkworm pupa oil catalyzed by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A. Wang has shown that as the increase of the temperature will lead an improvement of the conversion rate and conversion efficiency of the substrates (Wang et al., 2011Wang, W., Li, T., Ning, Z., Wang, Y., Yang, B., & Yang, X. (2011). Production of extremely pure diacylglycerol from soybean oil by lipase-catalyzed glycerolysis. Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 49(2), 192-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enzmictec.2011.05.001. PMid:22112408.
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). Obviously, when the temperature was 30°C, the initial reaction rate was low, and the yield of partial glycerides was only 92.34% till the reaction time reached 8 h. This might be at a low temperature, the mass transfer between the substrates became slower, which has a negative effect on the reaction. The highest yield of the reaction products can be obtaind when the temperature was 40 °C. However, when increased the reaction temperature beyond 40°C, the reaction rate was decreased, due to a high temperature will reduce the enzyme activity. Therefore, in the subsequent glycerolysis reaction study, a temperature of 40°C was selected as the reaction condition.

Figure 3
Effect of temperature on silkworm pupa oil catalyzed by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A

Effect of different lipase dosages on the glycerolysis

The effect of lipase dosage on the glycerolysis of silkworm pupa oil catalyzed by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A is illustrated in Figure 4. When the lipase dosage was 50 U/g, the partial glycerides yield in 4 h was 95.06% (including the yield of DAG was 29.83% and the MAG was 65.23%). The continuous increase of lipase dosage had no obvious effect on the accumulation of partial glycerides. We guessed that the lipase dosage and substrates were saturated with each other or the lipase dosage was so much,that hindered the mass transfer (Zha et al., 2014Zha, B., Chen, Z., Wang, L., Wang, R., Chen, Z., & Zheng, L. (2014). Production of glycerol monolaurate-enriched monoacylglycerols by lipase-catalyzed glycerolysis from coconut oil. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, 116(3), 328-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejlt.201300243.
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). Thus, 50 U/g as the optimal lipase dosage was selected.

Figure 4
Effect of lipase dosage on silkworm pupa oil catalyzed by immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A.

3.3 Scale-up reaction

Exploring the scale-up experiment of the immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A catalyzing the preparation of partial glycerides with changes in time, under the conditions that the substrate concentration was 40% (w/v), the molar ratio of silkworm pupa oil and glycerol was 1:3, the reaction temperature was 40 °C, the lipase dosage was 50 U/g, and the relationship between partial glycerides and reaction time was discussed. As shown in Figure 5, when the reaction progressed to 6 h, the conversion rate of TAG in silkworm pupa oil reached 96.98%, and the yields of DAG and MAG were basically stable, 30.16% and 66.35%, respectively. Valério et al. (2009)Valério, A., Fiametti, K. G., Rovani, S., Franceschi, E., Corazza, M. L., Treichel, H., de Oliveira, D., & Oliveira, J. V. (2009). Enzymatic production of mono- and diglycerides in compressed n-butane and AOT surfactant. The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 49(2), 216-220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.supflu.2009.02.001.
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explored the use of immobilized lipase (Novozym 435) and the surfactant (aerosol-OT or AOT) to produce MAG and DAG from olive oil in a pressurized n-butane solvent medium, 81.3% (71.9% MAG and 9.4% DAG) partial glycerides was obtained. Obviously, in current study, immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A have a better performance in preparing partial glycerides. This was due to the immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A has stronger non-positional selectivity than Novozym 435, which has a positive effect on more DAG turning into MAG.

Figure 5
The effect of time on the yield of diglycerides and monoglycerides.

3.4 Separation and fatty acid composition of DAG and MAG

In order to purify the final product, molecular distillation equipment was used to purify the final product and separate DAG and MAG. Table 2 shows that, after purification by single-stage molecular distillation, MAG and DAG were separated and achieved the concentration of 99.18% and 89.47% in their respective phase.

Table 2
Acyl yield in silkworm pupa oil and products.

It could be seen from Table 3 that the concentration of α-linolenic acid in raw silkworm pupa oil was 29.76%, and didn’t change significantly after glycerolysis reaction. Moreover, it also showed that the enzymatic glycerolysis reaction had no significant influence on the other fatty acid compositions, which was similar with the report of Hu et al. (2017)Hu, B., Li, C., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Q., Zhu, Y., Su, Z., & Chen, Y. (2017). Microwave-assisted extraction of silkworm pupal oil and evaluation of its fatty acid composition, physicochemical properties and antioxidant activities. Food Chemistry, 231, 348-355. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.03.152. PMid:28450017.
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.

Table 3
Fatty acid composition in silkworm pupa oil and products.

The reaction mixture that was used in the reaction system, was stirred at 40 °C, included 500 g of glycerol and silkworm pupa oil (3:1 M ratio), 1.25 L tert-butyl alcohol and 50 g of lipase . TAG triacylglycerols,MAG monoacylglycerols, DAG diacylglycerols. The reaction mixture that was used in the reaction system, was stirred at 40 °C, included 10 g of glycerol and silkworm pupa oil (3:1 M ratio), 25 mL tert-butyl alcohol and 1 g of lipase . MAG monoacylglycerols, DAG diacylglycerols, UFA unsaturated fatty acid

4 Conclusions

Here, we successfully demonstrated the ability of immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A to prepare the partial glycerides rich in α-linolenic acid. Comparing with three commercial immobilized lipases, immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A was more capable. Under the optimal conditions, the conversion rate of TAG can reach 97.21% in a short time (6 h), the yield of DAG in the mixture was 30.61%, and the MAG was 63.92%. In addition, the results of the scale-up reaction were in line with expectations, and the yield of partial glycerides can reach 96.51% within 6 h. After molecular distillation,the concentration of MAG in the light phase was 99.18% and in the heavy phase the yield of DAG was 89.47%. These results further indicated that the immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A has great potential in catalyzing the glycerolysis reaction.

Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge funding from the National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFD1002403), National Science Fund for Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (31930084), Distinguished Young Scholars of China (31725022), China Agriculture Research System (CARS-18-ZJ0503), Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (2019A050503002), Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team of Nanhai Talent Plan of Lanhai District, Foshan (201811070001).

  • Practical application: Silkworm pupa oil contains the highest oil content of the α-linolenic acid in the animal oil , the application prospect is extremely wide, and it is also possible to use the immobilized lipase MAS1-H108A for enzymatic glycerolysis to prepare functional partial glycerides with a high content α-linolenic acid. At the same time, the results of the scale-up reaction are also very satisfactory. Therefore, this experiment has high application value in the enzymatic industrial production of functional partial glycerides.

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    18 Oct 2021
  • Date of issue
    2022

History

  • Received
    22 July 2021
  • Accepted
    17 Aug 2021
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