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Record W2131787029 · doi:10.1042/ba20010009

Immobilization of native and poly(ethylene glycol)‐treated (‘PEGylated’) bovine serum amine oxidase into a biocompatible hydrogel

2001· article· en· W2131787029 on OpenAlexaff
Nicole Demers, Enzo Agostinelli, Diana A. Averill‐Bates, Guy Fortier

Bibliographic record

VenueBiotechnology and Applied Biochemistry · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMicrobial metabolism and enzyme function
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEthylene glycolPEG ratioChemistrySelf-healing hydrogelsThermostabilityAmine gas treatingSubstrate (aquarium)Bovine serum albuminMolecular massPolymer chemistryPolyethylene glycolChromatographyPEGylationNuclear chemistryAmine oxidaseEnzymeOrganic chemistry

Abstract

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Native bovine serum amine oxidase (BSAO) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-treated ('PEGylated') BSAO were immobilized into a hydrogel during its synthesis. The hydrogel was obtained by cross-linking of BSA with PEG di-nitrophenyl carbonates with a molecular mass of 10 kDa. Approx. 60% of the amino groups at the surface of BSAO were modified by monomethoxy-PEG with a molecular mass of 5 kDa when the reaction was carried out for 5 h in borate buffer, pH 9. The number of anchorage points of BSAO in the matrix, which was determined as minimal when PEGylated BSAO was used or maximal when native BSAO was used, did not influence the apparent K(m) and V(max) values of the different preparations. The apparent K(m) values of both forms of the enzyme were decreased due to preconcentration of benzylamine substrate by the negatively charged hydrogel. V(max) values were generally lower upon immobilization. We can therefore conclude that the hydrogel swelling has no significant effect on the enzyme's structure. The operational stability, evaluated in the presence of substrate, was generally increased upon enzyme immobilization into the hydrogel. Enzymic hydrogels were very stable during storage in solution at 4 degrees C, maintaining a high activity even after several weeks. The immobilization of both forms of BSAO did not improve their thermostability at 65 degrees C. The BSA-PEG hydrogel is a good matrix for immobilization of enzymes with therapeutic potential such as BSAO.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.000
Threshold uncertainty score0.001

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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