Web alert: Engineered carbon dioxide capture

CO₂ fixation and conversion to products https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894720305751

This article reviews microbial carbon dioxide fixation for the purpose of making useful chemicals from a chemical engineering perspective.

Developing artificial autotrophs https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.592631/full

Natural organisms have evolved to fix carbon dioxide for their survival purposes, and producing artificial autotrophic organisms might provide for more beneficial microbes as cell factories for biotechnology.

CO₂ fixation for microbial biotechnology https://academic.oup.com/femsle/pages/microbial_carbon_dioxide_fixation

This link is to a thematic issue compendium dealing with CO₂ fixation in biotechnology published in FEMS Microbiology Letters. The issue includes studies of naturally occurring bacteria and engineered enzymes.

Carboxysomes https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(21)00259-6

This review article deals with recent advances in studies of microbial organelles for CO₂ fixation.

Microbial CO₂ fixation in soils https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.14937

This article discusses largely unknown sources of carbon dioxide fixation, sometimes denoted as microbial CO₂ fixation.

Heterotrophic contribution to carbon cycling https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2020-465/bg-2020-465.pdf

Heterotrophs catalyse many different carboxylation reactions. This has often been ignored as a contribution to large-scale carbon dioxide fixation, but the report suggests it is significant.

Extracellular electron uptake and CO₂ fixation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09377-6

Here, it is discussed that electrons from solid-phase conductive surfaces can stimulate photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation.

Rapid reductive carboxylation https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.2c00057

This report investigates enoyl-CoA carboxylases/reductases as some of the most efficient CO₂ fixing enzymes described to date.

Designing CO₂ fixation https://www.ibiology.org/bioengineering/synthetic-carbon-dioxide-fixation/

This link takes viewers to an interesting video on synthetic carbon dioxide fixation.

Biological and chemical strategies for CO₂ fixation https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5603/bf718d33bea7bdc07fc9877529b79c498934.pdf

There are many efforts to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This report seeks to be comprehensive and approaches the topic from a range of synthetic chemical and biological perspectives.

CO₂ fixation by engineered Escherichia coli https://elifesciences.org/articles/59882

This engineering of CO₂ fixation serves to provide information of adaption for an autotrophic lifestyle.

Rhodopsin and CO₂ fixation https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246656

This report is a metagenomic study focussed on carbon dioxide fixation and rhodopsin proteins in microbes found in mats in hypersaline lakes.

Revving up artificial photosynthesis https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220429185744.htm

This is a popular science article describing high-flux carbon dioxide fixation by a modified microbial enzyme.