烟气
碳酸酐酶
热稳定性
化石燃料
化学
二氧化碳
环境化学
环境科学
酶
化学工程
有机化学
工程类
作者
Arjun Sharma,R. Chiang,Monica Manginell,I.R. de Nardi,Eric N. Coker,Juan M. Vanegas,Susan Rempe,George D. Bachand
出处
期刊:ACS omega
[American Chemical Society]
日期:2023-10-05
卷期号:8 (41): 37830-37841
被引量:2
标识
DOI:10.1021/acsomega.3c02630
摘要
Continued dependence on crude oil and natural gas resources for fossil fuels has caused global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to increase to record-setting proportions. There is an urgent need for efficient and inexpensive carbon sequestration systems to mitigate large-scale emissions of CO2 from industrial flue gas. Carbonic anhydrase (CA) has shown high potential for enhanced CO2 capture applications compared to conventional absorption-based methods currently utilized in various industrial settings. This study aims to understand structural aspects that contribute to the stability of CA enzymes critical for their applications in industrial processes, which require the ability to withstand conditions different from those in their native environments. Here, we evaluated the thermostability and enzyme activity of mesophilic and thermophilic CA variants at different temperature conditions and in the presence of atmospheric gas pollutants like nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides. Based on our enzyme activity assays and molecular dynamics simulations, we see increased conformational stability and CA activity levels in thermostable CA variants incubated week-long at different temperature conditions. The thermostable CA variants also retained high levels of CA activity despite changes in solution pH due to increasing NO and SO2 concentrations. A loss of CA activity was observed only at high concentrations of NO/SO2 that possibly can be minimized with the appropriate buffered solutions.
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