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... A simple nanoporous metal organic framework (MOF) bioreactor preparation via a low energy 30 minute vortex as driving force to immobilize trypsin enzyme is presented. No chemical modifications were employed thus organic wastes were eliminated. The digestion efficiency of this trypsin bioreactor is exceptionally high, even when reused. This “green” synthesis procedure produced a “green” bioreactor. ...
... Ultrathin titania microcapsules with rough surfaces were prepared by using a metal–organic framework (ZIF-8) as one kind of hard template to mediate the structures of the microcapsule shell. Specifically, CaCO₃ particles were first coated with tannic acid (TA) followed by the deposition of hydrophobic ZIF-8 and another TA layer, the obtained particles were then assembled with protamine/TiO₂ bilaye ...
... Enhancing the activity and stability of enzymes and improving their reusability are critical challenges in the field of enzyme immobilization. Here we report a facile and efficient biomimetic mineralization to embed thermophilic lipase QLM in zeolite imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8). Systematic characterization indicated that the entrapment of lipase molecules was successfully achieved during the c ...
... In this work, a novel hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) electrochemical biosensor was developed based on the metal–organic framework (MOF, Tb@mesoMOF) modified three-dimensional (3D) kenaf stem-derived macroporous carbon (3D-KSCs) electrode which was used as a new platform to load microperoxidase-11 (MP-11) for the first time. The chitosan-Au nanoparticles (CHIT-AuNPs) were firstly electrodeposited on the ...
... The nano-/microscale UiO-66-NH₂ metal–organic framework (MOF) materials were successfully prepared with a uniform size of about 350–400 nm and structurally characterized. Soybean epoxide hydrolase (SEH), a useful hydrolase for synthesis of valuable vicinal diols, was for the first time efficiently immobilized onto the prepared UiO-66-NH₂ MOF. The resulting novel nano-/microbiocatalyst SEH@UiO-66-N ...
... The ex vivo application of enzymes in various processes, especially via enzyme immobilization techniques, has been extensively studied in recent years in order to enhance the recyclability of enzymes, to minimize enzyme contamination in the product, and to explore novel horizons for enzymes in biomedical applications. Possessing remarkable amenability in structural design of the frameworks as well ...
active sites; analytical chemistry; autolysis; chelating agents; coordination polymers; emus; immobilized enzymes; longevity; mass spectrometry; mice; oocytes; peptides; protein composition; proteins; proteolysis; proteome; proteomics; surface area; thermal stability; trypsin
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... Mass spectrometry (MS) based bottom-up strategy is now the first choice for proteomics analysis. In this process, highly efficient and complete enzymatic degradation of protein samples is extremely important to achieve in-depth protein coverage and high-throughput protein profiling. However, conventional in-solution digestion suffer from long digestion time and enzyme autolysis that limit the prot ...
... The protection effect of metal–organic framework (MOF) provides high stability for immobilized enzyme. The small cavities of MOFs, however, usually result in decreased apparent substrate affinity and enzymatic activity of immobilized enzyme, compared to native enzyme. We synthesized zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) with a combination of mesoporous and microporous channels for cytochrome c ...
... BACKGROUND: Very recently, metal‐organic framework (MOF) materials have been postulated as emerging supports to achieve solid‐state enzyme‐contained biocatalysts. In this work, post‐synthesis and in situ strategies to immobilize β‐glucosidase and laccase on different MOF materials were studied. The MOF‐based supports, i.e. MIL‐53(Al), NH₂‐MIL‐53(Al) and Mg‐MOF‐74, were prepared under soft and sust ...
... Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently emerged as a promising candidates for the immobilization of enzymes due to their diversified structures and porosity. However, a lack of good size and morphological control over the as-prepared MOFs has limited their practical applications in some cases. Herein, instead of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) with the standard rhombic dodecahedral ...
... BACKGROUND: Mesoporous metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely researched for enzyme immobilization, however, most are unstable in the aqueous phase. This paper reports the synthesis of a Cu–MOF for the immobilization of copper contained laccase via a surfactant‐templating method with various surfactant/chelating agent mass ratios. RESULTS: The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area an ...
... Sufficient pore size, appropriate stability, and hierarchical porosity are three prerequisites for open frameworks designed for drug delivery, enzyme immobilization, and catalysis involving large molecules. Herein, we report a powerful and general strategy, linker thermolysis, to construct ultrastable hierarchically porous metal–organic frameworks (HP-MOFs) with tunable pore size distribution. Lin ...
... Enzyme immobilization in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) offers retained enzyme integrity and activity, enhanced stability, and reduced leaching. Trapping enzymes on MOF surfaces would allow for catalysis involving large substrates. In both cases, the catalytic efficiency and selectivity depend not only on enzyme integrity/concentration but also orientation. However, it has been a challenge to det ...
... CO₂ capture by immobilized carbonic anhydrase (CA) has become an alternative and environmental friendly approach in CO₂ sequestration technology. However, the immobilized CA usually exhibits low CO₂ sequestration efficiency due to no gas adsorption function for the conventional CA supports. Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are an excellent material for gas adsorption and enzyme immobilization. Here ...
active sites; adsorption; biosensors; catalysts; catalytic activity; coordination polymers; encapsulation; immobilized enzymes; magnetic properties; surface area; thermal stability
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... Enzymes are nature's catalysts which are highly selective and efficient. Recently, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have captivated great attention as an attractive porous support matrix for immobilization of enzymes. An outstanding improvement in catalytic efficiency, enhanced chemical/thermal stability, easy accessibility to active sites, promising recyclability and high enzyme loading are some o ...
... To improve the stability and recyclability of enzymes immobilized on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), graphene oxide (GO) with surface oxygen-rich functional groups was selected to form ZIF-8/GO nanocomposites with the zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-8) for cytochrome c (Cyt c) immobilization. It was found that the functional groups on the GO surface were involved in the growth of ZIF-8 withou ...
... A facile approach was reported to establish mimic multienzyme systems with hierarchically porous (HP) biomimetic metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and natural enzymes for tandem catalysis. The hierarchically porous MOF HP-PCN-224(Fe) with peroxidase-like activity and tunable hierarchical porosity was synthesized via a modulator-induced strategy. HP-PCN-224(Fe) not only acts as the enzyme-immobilizat ...
... The use of an in situ immobilization procedure for the immobilization of hyperhalophilic alcohol dehydrogenase in a metal organic framework material is described. The easy and rapid in situ immobilization process enables retention of activity over a broad range of pH and temperature together with a decrease in the halophilicity of the enzyme. The catalytic activity of the immobilized enzyme was st ...
acetylcholinesterase; active sites; annealing; biosensors; carbon; coordination polymers; electrochemistry; electrodes; electron transfer; immobilized enzymes; iron; lanthanum; metal ions; microstructure; nanocomposites; nanomaterials; nitrogen; oxides; parathion-methyl
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... An efficient and facile metal–organic framework (MOF)-template strategy for preparing carbon nanocomposites has been developed. First of all, a series of metal ions, including Fe³⁺, Zr⁴⁺, and La³⁺, were respectively connected with 2-aminoterephthalate (H₂ATA) to form three metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and then three novel MOF-derived materials were obtained by annealing them at 550 °C under N₂ ...
... A hybrid polymer–MOFs architecture UiO-66-NH₂@PMAA was synthesized by tethering polymethacrylic acid (PMAA) onto the surface of the metal–organic frameworks UiO-66-NH₂, and it was further employed for pectinase immobilization by electrostatic interactions. The hybrid architecture was prepared through a combination of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), click chemistry and postsynthetic mo ...
... Carbonic anhydrase (CA) was previously proposed as a green alternative for biomineralization of carbon dioxide (CO₂). However, enzyme’s fragile nature when in synthetic environment significantly limits such industrial application. Herein, we hypothesized that CA immobilization onto flexible and hydrated “bridges” that ensure proton-transfer at their interfaces leads to improved activity and kineti ...
... The co-immobilization of two enzymes onto single support commonly exhibits low efficiency due to the competition against limited sites. Water-stable metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) [i.e., PCN-333(Al)] with a high surface area and ultra-large cavities were employed to efficiently adsorb cholesterol oxidase (ChOx) and encapsulate horseradish peroxidase (HRP), respectively. The prepared PCN-333/ChOx& ...
... To achieve high ionic liquid (IL) tolerance and promote in situ enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass, four metal–organic framework (MOF) carriers, including ZIF-8, UIO-66-NH₂, MIL-100-Fe, and PCN-250, were used for cellulase immobilization through simple physical adsorption. The results showed that ZIF-8 had the largest enzyme adsorption capacity at 176.16 mg/g support. In addition, the immobilized cel ...
... Biocatalysis of large-sized substrates finds wide applications. Immobilizing the involved enzymes on solid supports improves biocatalysis yet faces challenges such as enzyme structural perturbation, leaching, and low cost-efficiencies, depending on immobilization strategies/matrices. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are attractive matrices but challenged by enzyme leaching (physical adsorption) or perturba ...
... In this work, maximizing the utilization of CO₂ and its precipitation as CaCO₃ by using immobilized bovine carbonic anhydrase (BCA) was evaluated. In this way, selection of suitable carriers which have a gas adsorption function would enhance the CO₂ sequestration efficiency of the carbonic anhydrase (CA). So a metal–organic framework (MOF), an excellent material for gas adsorption and enzyme immob ...
... Enzyme embedded metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are blooming in the field of enzyme immobilization on account of their superior catalytic efficiency, thermal and chemical stability as compared to native enzyme. However, the separation and recovery of enzyme embedded MOF composite is quite challenging due to its nanometer size, high dispersity and low density which limits the reusability. In this w ...
adsorbents; binding sites; chemical species; coordination polymers; immobilized enzymes; ligands; peptides; proteins; proteomics; surface area
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... Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been broadly applied to sample preparation which is an essential step in proteomics research. Their large surface area provides abundant binding sites, their specific pore structure can exclude large-sized proteins and allow small molecules to get inside their channels. Besides, the flexible functionalization gives infinite possibilities of MOFs applications in ...
... Although enzyme immobilization has improved many areas, biocatalysis involving large-size substrates is still challenging for immobilization platform design because of the protein damage under the often “harsh” reaction conditions required for these reactions. Our recent efforts indicate the potential of using Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) to partially confine enzymes on the surface of MOF-based ...
... The porous material has been considered as a potential candidate for immobilizing enzymes. Recently, metal organic framework (MOF) has been emerged as a hybrid organic inorganic material with unique intrinsic properties such as well-defined pore structure, excellent chemico-thermal stability, and extremely high surface areas which make them as a suitable scaffold for enzyme immobilization. The out ...
... Biological metal-organic frameworks (BioMOFs), an emerging sub-class of MOFs, are prepared from metals and biological ligands (bioligands). Benefit from the low toxicity and good biocompatibility of bioligands, BioMOFs can be used in biomedicine and biocatalysis. In this work, a novel approach was developed for fabricating BioMOFs materials (Co-Cys BioMOFs) from cobalt salt and cystine, meanwhile ...
... Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for enzyme encapsulation-induced biomimetic mineralization under mild reaction conditions are commonly microporous and hydrophobic, which result in a rather high mass transfer resistance of the reactants and restrain the enzyme catalytic activity. Herein, we prepared a type of hierarchical porous and hydrophilic MOF through the biomimetic mineralization of enzymes, ...
... Herein, thermophilic lipase QLM from Alcaligenes sp. has been successfully immobilized in bio-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) through biomimetic mineralization, using zinc acetate and adenine as metal ion and organic ligand, respectively. The morphology and structure of lipase@Bio-MOF was systematically characterized by scanning electron microcopy (SEM), transmission electron microcopy (TEM) ...
Yijing Chen; Peng Li; Jiawang Zhou; Cassandra T. Buru; Luka Đorđević; Penghao Li; Xuan Zhang; M. Mustafa Cetin; J. Fraser Stoddart; Samuel I. Stupp; Michael R. Wasielewski; Omar K. Farha
NAD (coenzyme); carbon dioxide; carbon dioxide fixation; coordination polymers; dicarboxylic acids; electron transfer; encapsulation; formate dehydrogenase; formic acid; immobilized enzymes; irradiation; photosensitizing agents; porous media; renewable energy sources; synthetic products; white light
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... Protection of enzymes with synthetic materials is a viable strategy to stabilize, and hence to retain, the reactivity of these highly active biomolecules in non-native environments. Active synthetic supports, coupled to encapsulated enzymes, can enable efficient cascade reactions which are necessary for processes like light-driven CO₂ reduction, providing a promising pathway for alternative energy ...
... In recent years, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been extensively studied as candidate enzyme immobilization platforms. However, conventional MOF–enzyme composites usually exhibit low controllability and reusability. In this study, a novel and stable strategy for enzyme immobilization was designed by use of ZIF-8 to encapsulate in situ DNA–enzyme composites on the surface of magnetic particle ...
... A protease from Bacillus sp. CHA410 was purified and immobilized by a one-step MOF-embedded approach. The immobilized protease characterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The optimal pH activity of protease CHA410 and protease@MOF was obtained at pH 8.0 and 9.0, respectively. Thermostability re ...
... Since the first reports of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), this unique class of crystalline, porous materials has garnered increasing attention in a wide variety of applications such as gas storage and separation, catalysis, enzyme immobilization, drug delivery, water capture, and sensing. A fundamental feature of MOFs is their porosity which provides space on the micro- and meso-scale for confin ...
... Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are hybrid organic inorganic materials with unique properties such as well-defined pore structure, extremely high surface area, excellent chemical-thermal stability. MOFs-based constructs have been extensively engineered and used for applications, such as enzyme immobilization for bio-catalysis. To obtained a zeolitic imidazole framework-8 (ZIF-8) for enzyme immobil ...
... Development of reliable Enzymatic Biofuel Cells (EBFC)-based self-powered glucose biosensor for continuous, noninvasive monitoring without restriction on patient's movement is highly recommendable. However, its application to a large extent is limited by the relatively poor stability. Herein, we synthesized a highly flexible electrode for effective enzyme immobilization by encapsulating enzyme int ...
... In the present study, ultrasound irradiation was utilized to synthesize a novel zinc metal-organic framework (MOF). Scanning electron microscopic images, exhibited homogenous morphology with a nano-sized distribution of the Zn-MOF structure as also confirmed by X-ray diffraction patterns. Following, physical immobilization of Lepidium draba peroxidase (LDP) were optimized on the Zn-MOF in phosphat ...
... α-L-Rhamnosidase (Rha) is a biotechnologically important enzyme that degrades biomass containing natural rhamnoside. Herein, the recombinant Rha was successfully immobilized on magnetic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and used to hydrolyze rutin. Magnetic MOFs were constructed by binding Cu²⁺ and PABA to the surface of Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles coated with a polydopamine film through coordinate covalen ...
... BACKGROUND: The metal–organic framework (MOF) ZIF‐8 has the advantages of a large specific surface area and high stability. A new strategy for the assembly of amino acid dehydrogenase with peptide linker and for improving enzyme immobilization is proposed. RESULTS: Peptide linker enhanced enzyme activity after immobilization by 138.7%, and maintained 81.2% of its initial activity after seven recyc ...
... As a platform for enzyme immobilization, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can protect enzyme activity from the interference of external adverse environment. Although these strategies have been proven to produce good results, little consideration has been given to the functional similarity of MOFs to the encapsulated enzyme. Here, catalase (CAT) was encapsulated in Fe-BTC with peroxidase-like activi ...
... As a series of metal organic framework (MOFs), materials of institute lavoisier frameworks (MILs) are expected to be excellent supports for enzyme immobilization due to their good water-stability and acid tolerance. However, enzyme loading on MIL-125-NH₂ is very low due to small pore size and few amino groups on the surface of the MIL-125-NH₂. In this work, catalase (CAT) was immobilized on the MI ...
... The hydroxyapatite/glycyrrhizin/lithium-based metal–organic framework (HA/GL/Li-MOF) nanocomposites were synthesized via the hydrothermal method in the presence of lecithin and glycyrrhizin. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) equipped with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) were applied for characterizati ...
... D-allulose is a rare low-calorie sugar that has many fundamental biological functions. D-allulose 3-epimerase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens (AT-DAEase) catalyzes the conversion of D-fructose to D-allulose. The enzyme has attracted considerable attention because of its mild catalytic properties. However, the bioconversion efficiency and reusability of AT-DAEase limit its industrial application. Ma ...
... The biomineralized metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) as protective layers help enhance the robustness of enzymes for biocatalysis. Despite great efforts, it is still challenging to develop a recyclable system with high payload and tolerance to harsh conditions. Here, we report a facile surface charge-independent strategy based on Zn-based coordination polymer (ZnCP) for nondestructive immobilization ...