Ordered Coimmobilization of a Multienzyme Cascade System with a Metal Organic Framework in a Membrane: Reduction of CO2 to Methanol

Enzymatic reduction of CO2 is of great significant, which involves an efficient multienzyme cascade system (MECS). In this work, formate dehydrogenase (FDH), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), and reduced pyridine nucleotide (NADH) (FDH&GDH&NADH), formaldehyde dehydrogenase (FalDH), GDH, and NADH (FalDH&GDH&NADH), and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), GDH, and NADH (ADH&GDH&NADH) were embedded in ZIF-8 (one kind of metal organic framework) to prepare three kinds of enzymes and coenzymes/ZIF-8 nanocomposites. Then by dead-end filtration these nanocomposites were sequentially located in a microporous membrane, which was combined with a pervaporation membrane to timely achieve the separation of product methanol. Incorporation of the pervaporation membrane was helpful to control reaction direction, and the methanol amount increased from 5.8 ± 0.5 to 6.7 ± 0.8 μmol. The reaction efficiency of an immobilized enzymes-ordered distribution in a membrane was higher than that disordered distribution in the membrane, and the methanol amount increased from 6.7 ± 0.8 to 12.6 ± 0.6 μmol. Moreover, it appeared that introduction of NADH into ZIF-8 enhanced the transformation of CO2 to methanol from 12.6 ± 0.6 to 13.4 ± 0.9 μmol. Over 50% of their original productivity was retained after 12 h of use. This method has wide applicability and can be used in other kinds of multienzyme systems.