Biocatalytic reductive aminations with NAD (P) H-dependent enzymes: enzyme discovery, engineering and synthetic applications

B Yuan, D Yang, G Qu, NJ Turner, Z Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral amines are pivotal building blocks for the pharmaceutical industry. Asymmetric
reductive amination is one of the most efficient and atom economic methodologies for the …

Current Status of Amine Dehydrogenases: From Active Site Architecture to Diverse Applications Across a Broad Substrate Spectrum

V Tseliou, MF Masman, T Knaus, FG Mutti - ChemCatChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs) are NAD (P) H‐dependent oxidoreductases that catalyze
the reductive amination between carbonyl compounds and ammonia as the amine donor …

Reshaping substrate-binding pocket of leucine dehydrogenase for bidirectionally accessing structurally diverse substrates

T Wu, Y Wang, N Zhang, D Yin, Y Xu, Y Nie, X Mu - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Steric hindrance modification-based pocket reshaping is an effective approach for enzyme–
substrate acceptance evolution. However, previous studies were limited to using the …

Biocatalytic synthesis of two furan-based amino compounds 2-acetyl-4-aminofuran and 3-acetylamino-5-(α-aminoethyl)-furan from chitin resources

C Wu, X Zhang, W Liu, C Wang, Q Jiang… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chitin, as the second most abundant biomass in nature, possesses 7 wt% biologically fixed
nitrogen, and its direct valorization into valuable nitrogen (N)-containing chemicals is …

Desymmetric reductive amination of 1, 3-cyclopentadiones to single stereoisomer of β-amino ketones with an all-carbon quaternary stereocenter by engineered amine …

T Lv, J Feng, X Chen, Y Luo, Q Wu, D Zhu, Y Ma - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Regio-and stereoselective reductive amination of diketones offers an attractive method to
access chiral β-amino ketones with multiple stereocenters which are unique scaffolds and …

Impact of aqueous micellar media on biocatalytic transformations involving transaminase (ATA); applications to chemoenzymatic catalysis

J Dussart-Gautheret, J Yu, K Ganesh, G Rajendra… - Green chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Surfactant-enabled asymmetric ATA-catalyzed reductive aminations in aqueous buffered
media are described, representative of the enhanced levels of conversion made possible by …

Hydrophilicity‐based engineering of the active pocket of D‐amino acid oxidase leading to highly improved specificity toward D‐glufosinate

K Yang, B Huang, C Amanze, Z Yan, G Qiu… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its stringent stereospecificity, D‐amino acid oxidase (DAAO) has made it very easy to
synthesize L‐amino acids. However, the low activity of the wild‐type enzyme toward …

Direct asymmetric reductive amination of alkyl (hetero) aryl ketones by an engineered amine dehydrogenase

W Kong, Y Liu, C Huang, L Zhou, J Gao… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The direct asymmetric reductive amination of heteroaryl ketones has been a long‐standing
synthetic challenge. Here we report the engineering of an amine dehydrogenase (AmDH) …

Shield Machine-like Substrate Walking Strategy-Based Pocket Engineering of F-Amine Dehydrogenase for Accessing Structurally Diverse Fused-Ring and Linked …

T Wu, Y Xu, Y Nie, X Mu - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Although amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs) are emerging as attractive biocatalysts for chiral
amine synthesis, their synthetic application in structurally diverse arylamines remains …

Improved synthesis of furfurylamine from a high titer of biomass-derived furfural by a thermostable triple mutant ω-transaminase in a three-component deep eutectic …

L Li, Q Li, J Di, Y He, C Ma - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Furfurylamine (FLA) is widely utilized in manufacturing polymers, food additives, fibers, fuel
additives, flavors, and pharmaceuticals. Lignocellulose was tandemly transformed to …