BOD-biosensor based yeast Debaryamyces hansenii VKM Y-2482 encapsulated in organosilicate matrix

Afonina E.L, Kamanina O.A Ponamoreva O.N

Tula State University

At present special attention is paid to the purification of natural and household water from various types of pollution. The standard method of determining the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) requires incubation oxygenated sample for 5 or 20 days. Lack of efficiency significantly reduces the value of such a definition. The standard method of determining the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) requires incubation oxygenated sample for 5 or 20 days. Lack of timeliness significantly reduces the value of such a definition. For this reason, there may be really environmentally hazardous situations in which remains a "behind the scenes" of contaminated water in the reservoirs. Modern strict requirements of environmental conditions dictate the need to use rapid methods of monitoring the BOD. For operational analysis developed method of estimation BOD, based on the use of biosensor analyzers to reduce the time of analysis of 700 times. Immobilization of microorganisms is an important and essential step in creating a biosensor.

For the immobilization of whole cells suggested a variety of approaches and methods each of which has its advantages and limitations. Special interest represents immobilization of biomaterial hybrid organosilicate matrix, which have a number of advantages over organic and inorganic polymers: long preservation at a high level of biological activity of the microorganisms after immobilization process; provide effective protection from external, damaging the structure of the matrix factors such as mechanical, thermal and biological effects; a constant volume and high porosity matrix regardless of the composition of the medium, which provides high-speed diffusion fluxes, as well as they are capable of safely and efficiently keep the biomaterial. In the work microorganisms were immobilized using this technology and used as a biocatalyst in a biosensor for the determination of BOD. One of the most promising microorganisms for the creation of BOD biosensor is yeast Debaryamyces hansenii VKM Y-2482, which have a broad substrate specificity. Immobilization these yeast organosilicate matrix, allowed to obtain a receptor element of the biosensor characterized by a heightened sensitivity compared to other methods of immobilization. [1]

For the purpose of testing and calibration correlative obtained biosensor was determined BOD in model samples of water from the water sources of the Tula region (Russian Federation). As a reference method used a standard method of determining BOD. Statistical analysis of the results of BOD showed that the samples obtained by the two methods are uniform in reproducibility. Biosensors based on encapsulated yeast Debaryamyces hansenii VKM Y-2482 in a silicone matrix is a perspective tool for monitoring pollution of natural and household water.

 

1. V.A. Arlyapov, N.Yu. Yudina, L.D. Asulyan, S.V. Alferov, V.A. Alferov, A.N. Reshetilov BOD biosensor based on the yeast Debaryomyces hansenii immobilized inpoly(vinyl alcohol) modified by N-vinylpyrrolidone // Enzyme and Microbial Technology – 2013 – ÅÌÒ 8518

 

The work was supported by the Federal Target Program "Research and development on priority directions of scientific-technological complex of Russia for 2014 - 2020 years", the agreement ¹ 14.574.21.0062