AccScience Publishing / IJB / Volume 9 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.18063/ijb.695
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Programmable and printable formaldehyde dehydrogenase as an excellent catalyst for biodegradation of formaldehyde

Shuyan Zhao1 Bo Zeng1 Rui Pei2 Xiaoli Fu1 Meinan Zhu1 Guangya Zhang1 Wei Jiang1*
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1 College of Chemical Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, Fujian, 361021, China
2 School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
Submitted: 14 September 2022 | Accepted: 6 November 2022 | Published: 27 February 2023
© 2023 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

As an environmental pollutant, formaldehyde can cause serious harm to the human body. Among many degradation methods, formaldehyde dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas putida (PFDH) exhibits broad potential because of its strong catalytic specificity and high degradation efficiency. However, the real application of PFDH in industry is limited by its instability and difficulties in recycling. In this work, the suitable printing conditions for immobilizing PFDH by three-dimensional (3D) printing technology were studied: the concentration of sodium alginate (SA) was 1.635 wt%, the concentration of CaCl2 was 7.4 wt%, the crosslinking time with CaCl2 was 8 min, and the temperature of the reaction was 31.5°C. 3D-printed PFDH/calcium alginate (CA) microspheres have 210% relative enzyme activity after seven repeated uses. Dried PFDH/CA particles were characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FT-IR), EDS elemental mapping, and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) which proved that the enzyme was immobilized by the material. In addition, the recycling ability of 3D printing to immobilize different objects was explored and different shapes were designed by computer-aided design (CAD). In conclusion, 3D printing technology was applied to immobilize PFDH in this work, which provides a new idea to biodegrade formaldehyde in a green way.

Keywords
Formaldehyde dehydrogenase
Enzyme immobilization
3D printing
Degradation of formaldehyde
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