What is the reason why cell immobilization technology is widely used instead of traditional enzyme technology?

Improve the utilization rate of cells and enzymes, and the large-scale industrial production has strong operability and is convenient for management and recycling.

The enzyme is synthesized by cells, and the enzyme molecules are very small, so it is difficult to fix, while the cells are relatively large and easy to fix, and there is no need to extract the enzyme, so the cost of preparing immobilized cells is lower, the operation is easier, and continuous production can be realized.

Cell immobilization is a method to obtain enzymes and cell metabolites, which originated in the 1970s and is a new technology developed on the basis of immobilized enzymes. Because immobilized cells can grow, reproduce and metabolize normally, they are also called immobilized living cells or immobilized proliferating cells.