One-pot enzymatic conversion of carbon dioxide and utilization for improved microbial growth

Environ Sci Technol. 2015 Apr 7;49(7):4466-72. doi: 10.1021/es505143f. Epub 2015 Mar 27.

Abstract

We developed a process for one-pot CO2 conversion and utilization based on simple conversion of CO2 to bicarbonate at ambient temperature with no energy input, by using the cross-linking-based composites of carboxylated polyaniline nanofibers (cPANFs) and carbonic anhydrase. Carbonic anhydrase was immobilized on cPANFs via the approach of magnetically separable enzyme precipitate coatings (Mag-EPC), which consists of covalent enzyme attachment, enzyme precipitation, and cross-linking with amine-functionalized magnetic nanoparticles. Mag-EPC showed a half-life of 236 days under shaking, even resistance to 70% ethanol sterilization, and recyclability via facile magnetic separation. For one-pot CO2 conversion and utilization, Mag-EPC was used to accelerate the growth of microalga by supplying bicarbonate from CO2, representing 1.8-fold increase of cell concentration when compared to the control sample. After two repeated uses via simple magnetic separation, the cell concentration with Mag-EPC was maintained as high as the first cycle. This one-pot CO2 conversion and utilization is an alternative as well as complementary process to adsorption-based CO2 capture and storage as an environmentally friendly approach, demanding no energy input based on the effective action of the stabilized enzyme system.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adsorption
  • Aniline Compounds / chemistry
  • Bicarbonates / metabolism
  • Carbon Dioxide / metabolism*
  • Carbonic Anhydrases / chemistry
  • Carbonic Anhydrases / metabolism
  • Cross-Linking Reagents / chemistry
  • Enzymes, Immobilized / chemistry
  • Enzymes, Immobilized / metabolism
  • Half-Life
  • Magnetics
  • Microalgae / growth & development*
  • Microalgae / metabolism
  • Nanofibers / chemistry
  • Temperature

Substances

  • Aniline Compounds
  • Bicarbonates
  • Cross-Linking Reagents
  • Enzymes, Immobilized
  • polyaniline
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Carbonic Anhydrases