A Mechanistic Study of Carbonic Anhydrase Enhanced Calcite Dissolution

• Main Authors: Dong, Sijia, Berelson, William M., Teng, H. Henry, Rollins, Nick E., Pirbadian, Sahand, Elâ€Naggar, Mohamed Y., Adkins, Jess F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2020
• Subjects: Adkins; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl089244

Carbonic anhydrase (CA) has been shown to promote calcite dissolution (Liu, 2001, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6724.2001.tb00531.x; Subhas et al., 2017, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703604114), and understanding the catalytic mechanism will facilitate our understanding of the oceanic alkalinity c...