Issue 22, 2021

How the external solvent in biocompatible reverse micelles can improve the alkaline phosphatase behavior

Abstract

In the last decade, the nature of the nonpolar solvents that can be part of reverse micelles (RMs) has been the topic of several investigations to improve their applications. In this sense, the hydrolysis of 1-naphthyl phosphate catalyzed by the enzyme alkaline phosphatase (AP) was used as a probe to investigate the effect of the change of the external solvent on RMs formulated with the anionic surfactant sodium diethylhexyl sulfosuccinate (AOT). As external nonpolar solvents, two biocompatible lipophilic esters, isopropyl myristate and methyl laurate, and the traditional nonpolar solvents, n-heptane and benzene, were used. The results were compared among the RMs investigated and with the reaction in homogeneous media. Thus, the effect of the nanoconfinement as well as the impact of the replacement of a conventional external nonpolar solvent by biocompatible solvents were analyzed. The results indicate that the catalytic efficiency in the AOT RMs is larger than that in homogeneous media, denoting a different hydration level over the AP enzyme, which is directly related to the different degrees of nonpolar solvent penetration to the RM interface. Our findings demonstrated that toxic solvents such as n-heptane and benzene can be replaced by nontoxic ones (isopropyl myristate or methyl laurate) in AOT RMs without affecting the performance of micellar systems as nanoreactors, making them a green and promising alternative toward efficient and sustainable chemistry.

Graphical abstract: How the external solvent in biocompatible reverse micelles can improve the alkaline phosphatase behavior

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 nov 2020
Accepted
06 mei 2021
First published
06 mei 2021

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2021,19, 4969-4977

How the external solvent in biocompatible reverse micelles can improve the alkaline phosphatase behavior

N. Dib, V. R. Girardi, J. J. Silber, N. M. Correa and R. D. Falcone, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2021, 19, 4969 DOI: 10.1039/D0OB02371J

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