Molecular Catalysis of Energy Relevance in Metal–Organic Frameworks: From Higher Coordination Sphere to System Effects

NF Suremann, BD McCarthy, W Gschwind… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The modularity and synthetic flexibility of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have provoked
analogies with enzymes, and even the term MOFzymes has been coined. In this review, we …

Substrate channelling as an approach to cascade reactions

I Wheeldon, SD Minteer, S Banta, SC Barton… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Millions of years of evolution have produced biological systems capable of efficient one-pot
multi-step catalysis. The underlying mechanisms that facilitate these reaction processes are …

CAVER 3.0: a tool for the analysis of transport pathways in dynamic protein structures

E Chovancova, A Pavelka, P Benes, O Strnad… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Tunnels and channels facilitate the transport of small molecules, ions and water solvent in a
large variety of proteins. Characteristics of individual transport pathways, including their …

MOLEonline: a web-based tool for analyzing channels, tunnels and pores (2018 update)

L Pravda, D Sehnal, D Toušek… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
MOLEonline is an interactive, web-based application for the detection and characterization
of channels (pores and tunnels) within biomacromolecular structures. The updated version …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic regulation of epigenetics

C Lu, CB Thompson - Cell metabolism, 2012 - cell.com
How cells sense and respond to environmental cues remains a central question of biological
research. Recent evidence suggests that DNA transcription is regulated by chromatin …

Cascade reactions in nanozymes: Spatially separated active sites inside Ag-Core–Porous-Cu-shell nanoparticles for multistep carbon dioxide reduction to higher …

PB O'Mara, P Wilde, TM Benedetti… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Enzymes can perform complex multistep cascade reactions by linking multiple distinct
catalytic sites via substrate channeling. We mimic this feature in a generalized approach …

Enzyme clustering accelerates processing of intermediates through metabolic channeling

M Castellana, MZ Wilson, Y Xu, P Joshi… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
We present a quantitative model to demonstrate that coclustering multiple enzymes into
compact agglomerates accelerates the processing of intermediates, yielding the same …

A molecular switch and proton wire synchronize the active sites in thiamine enzymes

RAW Frank, CM Titman, JV Pratap, BF Luisi… - Science, 2004 - science.org
Thiamine diphosphate (ThDP) is used as a cofactor in many key metabolic enzymes. We
present evidence that the ThDPs in the two active sites of the E1 (EC 1.2. 4.1) component of …

Metabolic channeling: predictions, deductions, and evidence

V Pareek, Z Sha, J He, NS Wingreen, SJ Benkovic - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
With the elucidation of myriad anabolic and catabolic enzyme-catalyzed cellular pathways
crisscrossing each other, an obvious question arose: how could these networks operate with …

Enzymes and nanoparticles: Modulation of enzymatic activity via nanoparticles

A Arsalan, H Younus - International journal of biological macromolecules, 2018 - Elsevier
Enzymes are biocatalysts that speed up the reactions taking place inside the cell. They are
widely used in industries, scientific research and clinical diagnostics. Enzymes are specific …