Surfactant Monolayer Bending Elasticity in Lipase Containing Bicontinuous Microemulsions.

ABSTRACT: Lipase-catalyzed reactions offer many advantages among which a high degree of selectivity combined with the possibility to convert even non-natural substrates are of particular interest. A major drawback in the applicability of lipases in the conversion of synthetically interesting, non-natural substrates is the substantial insolubility of such substrates in water. The conversion of substrates, natural or non-natural, by lipases generally involves the presence of a water-oil interface. In the present paper, we exploit the fact that the presence of lipases, in particular the lipase from Candida antarctica B (CalB), changes the bending elastic properties of a surfactant monolayer in a bicontinuous microemulsion consisting of D₂O/NaCl -n-(d)-octane-pentaethylene glycol monod

SUBMITTER: Engelskirchen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7814304 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature