Catalytic organic reactions in water toward sustainable society

T Kitanosono, K Masuda, P Xu, S Kobayashi - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Traditional organic synthesis relies heavily on organic solvents for a multitude of tasks,
including dissolving the components and facilitating chemical reactions, because many …

Opportunities and challenges for combining chemo-and biocatalysis

F Rudroff, MD Mihovilovic, H Gröger, R Snajdrova… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
The past decade has seen a substantial increase in successful examples of the combination
of chemo-and biocatalysis for multistep syntheses. This is driven by obvious advantages …

Artificial metalloenzymes: reaction scope and optimization strategies

F Schwizer, Y Okamoto, T Heinisch, Y Gu… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The incorporation of a synthetic, catalytically competent metallocofactor into a protein
scaffold to generate an artificial metalloenzyme (ArM) has been explored since the late …

Directed evolution of artificial metalloenzymes for in vivo metathesis

M Jeschek, R Reuter, T Heinisch, C Trindler, J Klehr… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The field of biocatalysis has advanced from harnessing natural enzymes to using directed
evolution to obtain new biocatalysts with tailor-made functions. Several tools have recently …

Artificial metalloenzymes: challenges and opportunities

HJ Davis, TR Ward - ACS central science, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) result from the incorporation of an abiotic metal cofactor
within a protein scaffold. From the earliest techniques of transition metals adsorbed on silk …

Engineering and emerging applications of artificial metalloenzymes with whole cells

M Wittwer, U Markel, J Schiffels, J Okuda, DF Sauer… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
The field of artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) is rapidly growing and ArMs are attracting
increasing attention, for example, in the fields of biosensing and drug therapy. Protein …

Artificial metalloenzymes based on the biotin–streptavidin technology: enzymatic cascades and directed evolution

AD Liang, J Serrano-Plana, RL Peterson… - Accounts of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) result from anchoring a metal-containing
moiety within a macromolecular scaffold (protein or oligonucleotide). The resulting hybrid …

Hemoproteins reconstituted with artificial metal complexes as biohybrid catalysts

K Oohora, A Onoda, T Hayashi - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus In nature, heme cofactor-containing proteins participate not only in electron
transfer and O2 storage and transport but also in biosynthesis and degradation. The …

Artificial metalloenzymes based on the biotin–streptavidin technology: challenges and opportunities

T Heinisch, TR Ward - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The biotin–streptavidin technology offers an attractive means to engineer
artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs). Initiated over 50 years ago by Bayer and Wilchek, the biotin …

Directed evolution of artificial metalloenzymes: a universal means to tune the selectivity of transition metal catalysts?

MT Reetz - Accounts of chemical research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Transition metal catalysts mediate a wide variety of chemo-, stereo-, and
regioselective transformations, and therefore play a pivotal role in modern synthetic organic …