Self-Assembled Enzyme Nanoparticles for Carbon Dioxide Capture

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• 作者：Bhuvana Kamath Shanbhag ; Boyin Liu ; Jing Fu ; Victoria S. Haritos ; Lizhong He
• 刊名：Nano Letters
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 11, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：5
• 页码：3379-3384
• 全文大小：422K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1530-6992

文摘

Enzyme-based processes have shown promise as a sustainable alternative to amine-based processes for carbon dioxide capture. In this work, we have engineered carbonic anhydrase nanoparticles that retain 98% of hydratase activity in comparison to their free counterparts. Carbonic anhydrase was fused with a self-assembling peptide that facilitates the noncovalent assembly of the particle and together were recombinantly expressed from a single gene construct in Escherichia coli. The purified enzymes, when subjected to a reduced pH, form 50–200 nm nanoparticles. The CO₂ capture capability of enzyme nanoparticles was demonstrated at ambient (22 ± 2 °C) and higher (50 °C) temperatures, under which the nanoparticles maintain their assembled state. The carrier-free enzymatic nanoparticles demonstrated here offer a new approach to stabilize and reuse enzymes in a simple and cost-effective manner.