{"id":213692,"date":"2025-05-09T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/oxygen-stable-biocatalyst-from-a-thermophilic-bacterium-could-boost-hydrogen-production"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:15:46","slug":"oxygen-stable-biocatalyst-from-a-thermophilic-bacterium-could-boost-hydrogen-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/oxygen-stable-biocatalyst-from-a-thermophilic-bacterium-could-boost-hydrogen-production","title":{"rendered":"Oxygen-stable biocatalyst from a thermophilic bacterium could boost hydrogen production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oxygen-stable-biocatalyst-from-a-thermophilic-bacterium-could-boost-hydrogen-production.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the absence of air, microorganisms produce hydrogen using an enzyme called [FeFe]-hydrogenase, one of the most efficient hydrogen-producing biocatalysts known and a promising tool for green hydrogen energy. However, these enzymes are rapidly destroyed when exposed to air, which has so far limited their industrial use.<\/p>\n<p>Now, joint efforts led by scientists from the Photobiotechnology group and the Center for Theoretical Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have isolated a new type of oxygen-stable [FeFe]-hydrogenase and revealed its \u201ctricks\u201d for this oxygen-stability.<\/p>\n<p>The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.4c18483\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of air, microorganisms produce hydrogen using an enzyme called [FeFe]-hydrogenase, one of the most efficient hydrogen-producing biocatalysts known and a promising tool for green hydrogen energy. However, these enzymes are rapidly destroyed when exposed to air, which has so far limited their industrial use. Now, joint efforts led by scientists from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}