Efficient Hydrogen-Dependent Carbon Dioxide Reduction by Escherichia coli.

ABSTRACT: Hydrogen-dependent reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid offers a promising route to greenhouse gas sequestration, carbon abatement technologies, hydrogen transport and storage, and the sustainable generation of renewable chemical feedstocks [1]. The most common approach to performing direct hydrogenation of CO₂ to formate is to use chemical catalysts in homogeneous or heterogeneous reactions [2]. An alternative approach is to use the ability of living organisms to perform this reaction biologically. However, although CO₂ fixation pathways are widely distributed in nature, only a few enzymes have been described that have the ability to perform the direct hydrogenation of CO₂ [3-5]. The formate hydrogenlyase (FHL) enzyme from Escherichia coli normally o

SUBMITTER: Roger M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5772173 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature