Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Continuous artificial synthesis of glucose precursor using enzyme-immobilized microfluidic reactors

  • Yujiao Zhu,
  • Ziyu Huang,
  • Qingming Chen,
  • Qian Wu,
  • Xiaowen Huang,
  • Pui-Kin So,
  • Liyang Shao,
  • Zhongping Yao,
  • Yanwei Jia,
  • Zhaohui Li,
  • Weixing Yu,
  • Yi Yang,
  • Aoqun Jian,
  • Shengbo Sang,
  • Wendong Zhang,
  • Xuming Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12089-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) is a difficult enzyme to work with. Here, the authors covalently immobilized it in a microfluidic reactor to enhance its storage/thermal stabilities and reusability, which enabled the continuous artificial synthesis of glucose precursor.