Oxidation and phenolysis of peptide/protein C-terminal hydrazides afford salicylaldehyde ester surrogates for chemical protein synthesis

S Lin, Z Mo, P Wang, C He - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the growing popularity of serine/threonine ligation (STL) and cysteine/penicillamine
ligation (CPL) in chemical protein synthesis, facile and general approaches for the …

Biocatalytic Enantioselective Reduction of Cyclopropenyl Esters and Ketones Using Ene-Reductases

T Yasukawa, P Gilles, J Martin, J Boutet, J Cossy - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Enantioselective reduction of cyclopropenyl esters and ketones to optically active
cyclopropanes has been achieved by using whole-cell-overexpressing ene-reductases …

Exploiting and Engineering Neuroglobin for Catalyzing Carbene N–H Insertions and the Formation of Quinoxalinones

LJ Sun, H Wang, JK Xu, SQ Gao, GB Wen… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
It is desired to design and construct more efficient enzymes with better performance to
catalyze carbene N–H insertions for the synthesis of bioactive molecules. To this end, we …

Facile incorporation of non-canonical heme ligands in myoglobin through chemical protein synthesis

K Yi, P Wang, C He - Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The incorporation of non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) into the metal coordination
environments of proteins has endowed metalloproteins with enhanced properties and novel …

Characteristics and catalytic mechanism of a novel multifunctional oxidase, CpmO, for chloramphenicols degradation from Sphingobium sp. WTD-1

Y Gao, H Cheng, Q Song, J Huang, J Liu, D Pan… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chloramphenicols (CAPs) are ubiquitous emerging pollutants that threaten ecological
environments and human health. Microbial and enzyme-based biodegradation strategies …

Machine-Learning-Aided Engineering Hemoglobin as Carbene Transferase for Catalyzing Enantioselective Olefin Cyclopropanation

H Xie, K Liu, Z Li, Z Wang, C Wang, F Li, W Han… - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this study, we developed a machine-learning-aided protein design strategy for
engineering Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) as carbene transferase. A Natural Language …

Engineering Neuroglobin for Synthesis of Chiral Organoborons via Carbene B–H Insertion

LJ Sun, H Wang, JK Xu, W Niu, SQ Gao, YW Lin - Organic Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Organoborons have recently received much attention, while a biocatalytic platform for the
synthesis of chiral organoborons is limited only to Rma cytochrome c. In this study, we …

Insertion of unnatural metal ligand in the heme pocket of nitrophorin through protein semi-synthesis: Toward biomimicking binuclear active sites

Y Chen, Y Zhou, C He - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Herein, we report a semi-synthetic strategy affording a nitrophorin 2 (NP2) variant with a N,
N′-bis (2-pyridylmethyl) amine (Dpa) ligand as sidechain selectively installed at position …

Copper Complexes with Protein‐Based N‐Donor Ligands as cis‐Selective Nascent Cyclopropanases

N Fujieda, A Matsuo, S Itoh - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we aimed to develop protein‐based metal ligands to catalyze cis‐selective
cyclopropanation using the TM1459 cupin protein superfamily. Copper complexes with …

Modification of Heme Proteins for Reactivity and Mechanistic Studies

V Sosa Alfaro - 2022 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
In the past decade, carbene transfer biocatalysis has evolved from basic scientific research
to an area with vast potential for the development of new industrial processes in the …