Enzymatic Oxy‐and Amino‐Functionalization in Biocatalytic Cascade Synthesis: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

E Grandi, F Feyza Özgen, S Schmidt… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biocatalytic cascades are a powerful tool for building complex molecules containing oxygen
and nitrogen functionalities. Moreover, the combination of multiple enzymes in one pot offers …

Biocatalytic routes to anti-viral agents and their synthetic intermediates

S Slagman, WD Fessner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
With recent outbreaks of COVID-19 and Ebola, health and healthcare have once more
shown to be heavily burdened by the lack of generally effective anti-viral therapies. Initial …

Recent advances in biocatalysis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

J Feng, WC Geng, H Jiang, B Wu - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Nitrogen-containing heterocycles (N-heterocycles) are ubiquitous in both organisms and
pharmaceutical products. Biocatalysts are providing green approaches for synthesizing …

Hydrogenase-based oxidative biocatalysis without oxygen

A Al-Shameri, DL Siebert, S Sutiono… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Biocatalysis-based synthesis can provide a sustainable and clean platform for producing
chemicals. Many oxidative biocatalytic routes require the cofactor NAD+ as an electron …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering approaches for O2-dependent Enzymes

A Al-Shameri, L Schmermund, V Sieber - Current Opinion in Green and …, 2023 - Elsevier
O 2-dependent biocatalysts are among the most studied and used biocatalysts on the lab
scale. Their diversity and functional versatility make them very attractive for the sustainable …

Stereoselective Biotransformations of Cyclic Imines in Recombinant Cells of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

HC Büchsenschütz, V Vidimce‐Risteski… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Light‐driven biotransformations in recombinant cyanobacteria allow to employ
photosynthetic water‐splitting for cofactor‐regeneration and thus, to save the use of organic …

Powering artificial enzymatic cascades with electrical energy

A Al‐Shameri, MC Petrich… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed a scalable platform that employs electrolysis for an in vitro synthetic
enzymatic cascade in a continuous flow reactor. Both H2 and O2 were produced by …

Highly selective synthesis of D-amino acids from readily available L-amino acids by a one-pot biocatalytic stereoinversion cascade

D Zhang, X Jing, W Zhang, Y Nie, Y Xu - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
D-Amino acids are key intermediates required for the synthesis of important
pharmaceuticals. However, establishing a universal enzymatic method for the general …

Exploring structure and function of redox intermediates in [NiFe]‐hydrogenases by an advanced experimental approach for solvated, lyophilized and crystallized …

C Lorent, V Pelmenschikov… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To study metalloenzymes in detail, we developed a new experimental setup allowing the
controlled preparation of catalytic intermediates for characterization by various …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into electron transfer and bifurcation of the Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 hydrogenase reductase module

E Lettau, C Lorent, J Appel, M Boehm… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2025 - Elsevier
The NAD+-reducing soluble [NiFe] hydrogenase (SH) is the key enzyme for production and
consumption of molecular hydrogen (H 2) in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. In this study, we …