Figure 2

Immobilization on MP1000. Continuous lines show the decrease of residual activity in immobilization batch supernatants when incubated with the support. As a control, dotted lines show the same supernatants incubated without any support: initial activity was maintained during the 24 h immobilization process, as shown by almost full recovery of initial activity. Samples were taken mainly during the first 8 h of incubation to better define the rapid decrease of supernatant residual activity. The apparent activity decrease observed for LipCmut control sample was probably due to a different degree of substrate emulsion in samples assayed after 8 h incubation. High immobilization rates were obtained after 2 h incubation.