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N-Acetylglucosamine Production by Repeated-Batch Fermentation Using Immobilized Semi-Purified Chitinase Enzyme on Agar Lucia Soedirga; Hardoko Hardoko; Natasha V Widianto
Reaktor Volume 21 No. 1 March 2021
Publisher : Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Diponegoro University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (301.528 KB) | DOI: 10.14710/reaktor.21.1.11-14

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Chitinolytic mold, such as Mucor circinelloidesis can be utilized to produce chitinase enzyme for shrimp shell’s chitin hydrolysis into N-acetylglucosamine (NAG). For that purpose, entrapment of chitinase on agar as a carrier could be an alternative way to improve NAG production. This study aimed to investigate the stability of immobilized semi-purified chitinase on agar for multiple cycles fermentation to produce NAG. In this study, 0.6 mL of semi-purified chitinase enzyme was immobilized into 3% of agar matrices and tested for four fermentation cycles to obtain highest NAG concentration and good enzyme activity. The results indicate that the immobilized chitinase could be used for 6 hours fermentation or three fermentation cycles. The NAG concentration produced after three cycle were 1042.22 ± 16.20 ppm. Besides, the immobilized enzyme was considerably stable up to the third cycles with activity value of about 4.74 U/mL.Keywords: agar; immobilized;NAG; repeated fermentation
Physicochemical Characteristics of Butterfly Pea Flower Petals Steep Obtained at Different Steeping Temperature and Time Lucia Soedirga; Intan C Matita; Jessica Sidharta
Reaktor Volume 23 No.1 April 2023
Publisher : Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Diponegoro University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14710/reaktor.1.1.9-15

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Flower is an important part of the plant containing phytochemical compounds, especially the phenolic acids, flavonoids, and anthocyanin that can be used as natural antioxidants. Phytochemical compounds are usually drawn by steeping the flower petals in hot water. Indeed, different temperatures and steeping times would affect the yield of phytochemicals obtained. The butterfly pea flower is one of edible flowers that brings antioxidant activity due to the presence of phytochemical compounds, namely flavonoids and phenolic acids. Nevertheless, there have been limited studies dedicated to the search of steeping condition of butterfly pea flower petals in water. Thus, this study aimed to determine the time and temperature of steeping to produce the butterfly pea step with preferred physicochemical characteristics. The result indicates that butterfly pea flower petals which undergo steeping at 60°C for 45 minutes produce antioxidant activity with an IC50 value of 251.89 ± 32.02 ppm. Furthermore, the butterfly pea flower steep produced had blue to purple color with °Hue of 277.06 ±2.55, 1.23 ± 0.07 mg/L of total monomeric anthocyanin content, 6.83 ± 0.02 of pH and 138.42 ± 15.88 mg GAE / g sample of total phenolic content. Keywords: antioxidant; butterfly pea flower; steep; temperature; time