Question

What is immobilization? Write its importance.

Answer 1

Enzyme immobilization is a technique specifically designed to restrict the freedom of movement of an enzyme. Immobilization of enzymes is a common practice, mainly in order to minimize enzyme costs on the process economics by making it possible to reuse the enzyme many times and also minimize the operation cost as the immobilization technique may be modify the enzyme behavior, thus reducing the enzyme and product costs significantly. Many techniques have been used previously for enzyme immobilization, as entrapment, adsorption, covalent binding, encapsulation, and cross linking. Here we compare and contrast the basic properties of all immobilization methods.

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