Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for making and using improved carbonic anhydrases for novel, sustainable, and low energy CO.sub.2 waste gas scrubbing technologies that are also transformational carbon capture technologies. Embodiments of methods, systems and compositions disclosed herein include, but are not limited to, non-aqueous solvents, advanced membranes, sorbents, and cryogenic systems that significantly reduce the cost of CO.sub.2 capture from coal and natural gas-fired power plants and industrial facilities. Methods disclosed herein reduce the energy and cost required for CO.sub.2 separation and can be applied for both pre-combustion and post-combustion CO.sub.2 capture.

A recombinant bacteria which is genetically modified to express formate dehydrogenase (FDH), phosphoribulokinase (prk) and Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCo) is disclosed. The bacteria may be modified to be autotrophic.

The process of making a biocomposite material utilize a bacterial species and a fungal species in an agricultural feedstock composed of a substrate of non-nutrient discrete particles and a nutrient material wherein the bacterial species imparts mechanical properties to the biocomposite material and the fungal species binds the biocomposite material. Both bacterium and fungus can be genetically engineered to produce desired properties within the microbial communities.

Improvement in C4 dicarboxylic acid productivity in a host cell is provided. A polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence having at least 90% identity therewith.

A material for reducing the content of polluting and/or unwanted substances in a liquid includes at least one polymeric and/or inorganic base, suitable to be immersed in the liquid, having at least a surface, whereto is bonded at least one catalyst of the degradation reaction of inorganic salts in gaseous substances. The catalyst, whose function is to reduce the energy required for the activation of said reaction and to accelerate its progress, is an enzyme preferably selected among the lyase group, the hydrolase group and the oxidoreductase group.

This invention provides novel carbonic anhydrase (CAIX) nucleic acid and peptide sequences, as well as related methods and compositions, including anti-cancer immunogenic agent(s) (e.g. vaccines and chimeric molecules) that elicit an immune response specifically directed against cancer cells expressing a CAIX antigenic marker. The novel CAIX variant and related compositions are useful in a wide variety of treatment modalities including, but not limited to protein vaccination, DNA vaccination, and adoptive immunotherapy.

The invention provides compositions and methods for manipulating the exchange of water and/or carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) through plant stomata by controlling CO.sub.2 sensor genes. The invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing or optimizing biomass accumulation in a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for 10 opening or closing a stomatal pore on a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for increasing or decreasing oxygenation efficiency and/or carbon fixation in a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant by manipulating expression of a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. The invention provides promoters for regulating expression of a nucleic acid in a plant guard cell.

The present invention relates to polypeptides having carbonic anhydrase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.

The present invention provides chimeric antigen receptor cells specific for carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX) and methods of using same for treatment of CAIX expressing cancers such as renal cell carcinoma.

An OLED display including a display panel and a color-correction component is described. A plurality of comparative display panels otherwise equivalent to the display panel but having one or more different optical thicknesses of OLED layers have a maximum white-point color shift from 0 to 45 degrees of WPCS.sup.C.sub.45 and a white-point axial efficiency of WPAE.sup.C. The plurality of comparative display panels defines a performance curve along a boundary of performance points. The OLED display and the display panel have respective maximum white-point color shifts from 0 to 45 degrees of WPCS.sub.45 and WPCS.sup.0.sub.45 and respective white-point axial efficiencies of WPAE and WPAE.sup.0. WPCS.sup.0.sub.45 and WPAE.sup.0 defines a performance point of the display panel to the right of the performance curve and WPCS.sub.45 and WPAE defines a performance point of the OLED display above or to the left of the performance curve. Methods of making the OLED display are described.