Desinfeccion Con Enzimas
Desinfeccion Con Enzimas
Desinfeccion Con Enzimas
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A B S T R A C T
Currently, there is a growing demand in how to eliminate the biolm formed in industrial pipelines, especially in
food, fermentation, and water treatment industry. However, the traditional techniques for CIP (cleaning in place)
are usually ineffective, supercial, halfway, and do not clean or sterilize microbes located in the inner layers of the
biolm. A recent strategy for removing the biolm in pipes is employing enzymes to clean it in the circulating
water system under an optimal condition. However, how to operate and control the whole cleaning process is
difcult. Here, we will introduce the strategy of enzyme cleaning to make it more appropriated and effective.
A modication of CIP method is proposed for higher efciency by using N-acetylmuramide glycanohydrolase
as catalysts whose optimal pH and temperature is 10 1 and 45 2 8C, respectively.
The initial efciency of enzyme cleaning was evaluated by testing the content of ATP in water sample using
Clean-TraceTM (3M Corporation).
Lastly, the terminal water was tested with SLYM-BARTTM (HACH Corporation) to nd out whether there were
biolm-forming bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Lakretz et al. (2011) [1]), Pseudomonas uorescens
(OToole and Kolter (1998) [2]), iron bacterium, etc.
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A R T I C L E I N F O
Method: Enzyme cleaning technique
Keywords: Biolm, Enzyme cleaning, Biolm-forming bacteria, CIP (cleaning in place)
Article history: Received 3 July 2014; Accepted 14 August 2014; Available online 26 August 2014
Method details
In the water treatment process, traditional CIP techniques can usually remove or sterilize microbes
on the surface of pipes. Taking the advantages of low cost and low energy consumption, these
strategies were universally used in food, fermentation, and water treatment industry [1,3]. However,
when the biolm forms in pipelines, the traditional methods would not be available to eliminate it
completely [2]. By contrast, the strategy of using muramidase to remove the biolm in pipes is more
effective and in-depth. The comparison of effectiveness between the traditional CIP and enzyme
cleaning technique is shown in Fig. 1 and Table 1.
Preparation of material
In this new strategy, N-acetylmuramide glycanohydrolase is introduced as the critical enzyme
which will react with the polymeric matrix of the biolm, reduce its adherence and make the biolm
detach from the surface. In this study, the optimal pH and temperature for reaction is 10 1 and
45 2 8C, respectively. The temperature of 45 2 8C is used throughout the whole application procedure.
The material was processed in the following manner.
Chemicals
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Fig. 1. Comparison of effectiveness between the traditional CIP and enzyme cleaning technique.
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Table 1
Comparison of the effectiveness between enzyme cleaning technique and traditional CIP methods.
Samples
Raw water
Sand-ltered water
Carbon-ltered water
RO water
Deoxygenated water
cATP(RLU)
SLYM-BARTs
cATP(RLU)
SLYM-BARTs
160
286
612
1246
878
+
++
+++
+++
120
100
84
90
76
+
RLU value indicates the concentration of ATP (cATP) in the water sample. For enzyme cleaning, if the result is below 100 RLU, the
cleaning effect is good, otherwise it should continue. represents no slime-forming bacteria are detected in this water
sample. + indicates slime-forming bacteria are occasionally found in this water sample. ++ indicates slime-forming bacteria
obviously exist in this water sample. +++ indicates many slime-forming bacteria can be detected easily in this water sample.
Incubator
pH meter
500 mL sterile bottle
Sampling bottle, asks
Pipette (0.11 mL, 5 mL)/disposable syringes (1 mL, 5 mL)
V1 V0
372
Note: (a) V1 represents the volume of Cl-3 reagent consumed by enzyme solution. (b) V0 represents
the volume of Cl-3 reagent consumed by the initial water. (c) Ec represents the concentration of
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Fig. 3. (a) Aller test kit. (b) Operation of titration experiment using the Aller test kit.
enzyme solution which should be within the range of 0.25 0.02%. (d) The number 372 indicated the
coefcient of volume conversion from Cl-3 reagent to enzyme solution in the formula.
5. Lastly, circulate the prepared enzyme solution in all pipes and equipment which need to be cleaned.
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Fig. 4. (a) Releasing energy reaction of ATP in organisms. (b) Fluorescence reaction of ATP when catalyzed by luciferase. P
represents the phosphate group. This reaction can produce a lot of uorescence light.
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Fig. 5. The operation steps of ATP test using Clean-TraceTM ATP detector.
1. Get a water quality sampling rod out of the bag (storage at 28 8C) and keep it in balance for 10 min
at room temperature before use.
2. Pull rod core and immerse it into the sample for a few seconds, then take it out and ensure there is a
drop of liquid at the bottom of the rod core.
3. Carefully insert the rod core back into test bars (make sure the core do not recline on wall and the
sample rods can enter into the reaction liquid at the bottom). Then press the red part of the sample
rods to make it fully inserted into the reaction liquid.
4. Shake the test bar for 5 s to mix the liquid more completely.
5. Turn on the Clean-TraceTM ATP detector. When self-check process is completed, open the slot and
insert test bar.
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6. Lastly, close the slot and start to test for about 10 s, record the results (unit: RLU). For enzyme
cleaning, if the result is below 100 RLU, the cleaning effect is good, otherwise it should continue.
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Fig. 7. The growth of slime-forming bacteria in BART tubes after incubation. The uorescence in tubes was observed under the
UV light.
Slime-forming bacteria generally produce the thickest slime formations under aerobic (oxidative)
conditions, which develop around the oating ball. Growth may be recognized as a cloudy or gel-like
growth, which can be localized or occur throughout the sample. These growths are usually white, gray,
yellow, or beige in color and can darken over time (http://65.87.233.94/BARTs/SLYM.html?).
Meanwhile, they can usually have uorescence when incubated in BART (Fig. 7). For these samples,
safely dispose using a dedicated microwave oven or by autoclaving them.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.
21176105), Program of the Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, China
(Grant No. KLIB-KF201105). MethodsX thanks the (anonymous) reviewers of this article for taking the
time to provide valuable feedback.
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