The authors have quantitatively shown that the introduction of hydrophobic alkyl side chains (of varying carbon chain length) along the hydrophilic chitosan backbone will increase the relative hydrophobicity of the overall polymer and in the otherwise polar microenvironments surrounding the immobilized enzyme. In this talk we present additional work that uses viscosity data to characterize the introduction of micellar structure into hydrophobically modified chitosan polymer as well as fluorescence data to characterize the relative presence of protein aggregation in the immobilized state.

Modification and characterization of chemical microenvironments for enzyme immobilization

240th National Meeting (2010)

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