Electrocatalytic and biosensing properties of aerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenase from Hydrogenophaga pseudoflava immobilized on Au electrode towards carbon monoxide oxidation

Abstract

Herein, an enzyme-electrode based on the oxygen-insensitive carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (CODH) containing molybdenum (Mo) and copper (Cu), flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and two different [2Fe-2 S] clusters as cofactors from the aerobic bacterium Hydrogenophaga pseudoflava, is proposed as a platform for dissolved CO concentration monitoring. The immobilized CODHs on Au electrode retain their catalytic activity and demonstrates changes to cyclic voltammetry and amperometry signals upon interactions with various dissolved CO concentrations. Cyclic voltammetry shows that CODHs are capable of direct electron transfer without any mediator use as oxidative current which starts around -0.268 V (vs Ag/AgCl) is observed in the presence of CO. When CO-saturated standard solution was spiked sequentially into the gas-tight reactor, amperometry analysis shows current increased accordingly with response time within 5 s. Our study demonstrates that this enzyme-electrode is promising to serve as platform for developing an on-line dissolved CO concentration monitoring tool which is essential to fill in the gap for conventional technologies which are limited to off-line measurement.