Lactic acid bacteria: from starter cultures to producers of chemicals

R Hatti-Kaul, L Chen, T Dishisha… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Lactic acid bacteria constitute a diverse group of industrially significant, safe microorganisms
that are primarily used as starter cultures and probiotics, and are also being developed as …

Biocatalytic approaches applied to the synthesis of nucleoside prodrugs

LE Iglesias, ES Lewkowicz, R Medici, P Bianchi… - Biotechnology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Nucleosides are valuable bioactive molecules, which display antiviral and antitumour
activities. Diverse types of prodrugs are designed to enhance their therapeutic efficacy …

Immobilized enzyme reactors based on nucleoside phosphorylases and 2′-deoxyribosyltransferase for the in-flow synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant nucleoside …

F Rinaldi, J Fernández-Lucas, D de La Fuente… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, a mono-and a bi-enzymatic analytical immobilized enzyme reactors (IMERs)
were developed as prototypes for biosynthetic purposes and their performances in the in …

New trends in the biocatalytic production of nucleosidic active pharmaceutical ingredients using 2′-deoxyribosyltransferases

J Del Arco, J Acosta, J Fernández-Lucas - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, pharmaceutical industry demands competitive and eco-friendly processes for
active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) manufacturing. In this context, enzyme and whole …

New insights on nucleoside 2′-deoxyribosyltransferases: a versatile biocatalyst for one-pot one-step synthesis of nucleoside analogs

A Fresco-Taboada, I De La Mata, M Arroyo… - Applied microbiology …, 2013 - Springer
In recent years, glycosiltransferases have arisen as standard biocatalysts for the enzymatic
synthesis of a wide variety of natural and non-natural nucleosides. Such enzymatic …

Chemical and chemoenzymatic stereoselective synthesis of β-nucleosides and their analogues

HJ Wang, YY Zhong, YC Xiao, FE Chen - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
β-Nucleosides are fundamental building blocks of biological systems and are widely used
as therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer and viral infections, among others. In the …

Enzymatic Synthesis of Therapeutic Nucleosides using a Highly Versatile Purine Nucleoside 2'‐DeoxyribosylTransferase from Trypanosoma brucei

E Pérez, PA Sánchez‐Murcia, J Jordaan… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The use of enzymes for the synthesis of nucleoside analogues offers several advantages
over multistep chemical methods, including chemo‐, regio‐and stereoselectivity as well as …

Rational design of a thermostable 2′-deoxyribosyltransferase for nelarabine production by prediction of disulfide bond engineering sites

G Cruz, J Acosta, JM Mancheño, J Del Arco… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the major drawbacks of the industrial implementation of enzymatic processes is the
low operational stability of the enzymes under tough industrial conditions. In this respect, the …

Purine and pyrimidine salvage pathway in thermophiles: a valuable source of biocatalysts for the industrial production of nucleic acid derivatives

J Del Arco, J Fernández-Lucas - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Due to their similarity to natural counterparts, nucleic acid derivatives (nucleobases,
nucleosides, and nucleotides, among others) are interesting molecules for pharmaceutical …

A novel one-pot enzyme cascade for the biosynthesis of cladribine triphosphate

J Frisch, T Maršić, C Loderer - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cladribine triphosphate is the active compound of the anti-cancer and multiple sclerosis
drug Mavenclad (cladribine). Biosynthesis of such non-natural deoxyribonucleotides is …