Research Article

Enzymatic Transformation and Bonding of Sulfonamide Antibiotics to Model Humic Substances

Table 4

Percentage of sulfonamides recovered through sequential extraction after 15 h of enzymatic transformation with laccase from Trametes versicolor in the absence (control) and presence of substituted phenols (standard deviation in parentheses).

Sum of all fractions = recoveryReaction solution = unreactedBuffer pH 1.7
= easily desorbable
NaOH/methanol = total desorbableDMSO = sequestered

SAA
Control98 (1)98 (1)n.d.n.d.n.d.
Catechol84 (11)n.d.26 (10)43 (13)15 (13)
Guaiacol58 (8)n.d.4 (1)53 (8)1 (1)
Vanillin21 (7)n.d.8 (1)10 (7)3 (1)

SPY
Control99 (0.1)99 (0.1)n.d.n.d.n.d.
Catechol49 (10)n.d. n.d.39 (10)10 (2)
Guaiacol33 (4)n.d. 1 (0)31 (4)1 (0)
Vanillin27 (4)n.d. 6 (2)17 (1)4 (1)

SDT
Control98 (1)98 (1)n.d.n.d.n.d.
Catechol94 (7)n.d. 48 (23)45 (20)1 (1)
Guaiacol66 (7)n.d. 15 (2)18 (2)34 (6)
Vanillin92 (3)11 (2)23 (9)24 (4)35 (11)

n.d.: not determined at a detection limit of 4 mol mL−1.