Nothing lasts forever: understanding microbial biodegradation of polyfluorinated compounds and perfluorinated alkyl substances

LP Wackett - Microbial biotechnology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Poly‐and perfluorinated chemicals, including perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), are
pervasive in today's society, with a negative impact on human and ecosystem health …

Application of the spin-center shift in organic synthesis

FL Zhang, B Li, KN Houk, YF Wang - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Spin-center shift (SCS) is a radical process involving 1, 2-radical translocation along with a
two-electron ionic movement, such as elimination of an adjacent leaving group. Such a …

Recombinant Pseudomonas growing on non-natural fluorinated substrates shows stress but overall tolerance to cytoplasmically released fluoride anion

AG Dodge, CJ Thoma, MR O'Connor, LP Wackett - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial response to toxic fluoride anion has traditionally been studied by adding inorganic
fluoride salts to growth media. Fluoride is known to spontaneously transit the membrane as …

Copper radical oxidases: galactose oxidase, glyoxal oxidase, and beyond!

JK Fong, H Brumer - Essays in Biochemistry, 2023 - portlandpress.com
The copper radical oxidases (CROs) are an evolutionary and functionally diverse group of
enzymes established by the historically significant galactose 6-oxidase and glyoxal oxidase …

Genetic Code Expansion: Recent Developments and Emerging Applications

Y Huang, P Zhang, H Wang, Y Chen, T Liu… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The concept of genetic code expansion (GCE) has revolutionized the field of chemical and
synthetic biology, enabling the site-specific incorporation of noncanonical amino acids …

Active-site engineering switches carbohydrate regiospecificity in a fungal copper radical oxidase

Y Mathieu, ME Cleveland, H Brumer - ACS catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Copper radical oxidases (CROs) from Auxiliary Activity Family 5, Subfamily 2 (AA5_2), are
organic cofactor-free biocatalysts for the selective oxidation of alcohols to the corresponding …

In situ glycan analysis and editing in living systems

Y Li, H Wang, Y Chen, L Ding, H Ju - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
Besides proteins and nucleic acids, carbohydrates are also ubiquitous building blocks of
living systems. Approximately 70% of mammalian proteins are glycosylated. Glycans not …

Molecular rationale for partitioning between C–H and C–F bond activation in heme-dependent tyrosine hydroxylase

Y Wang, I Davis, I Shin, H Xu, A Liu - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The heme-dependent l-tyrosine hydroxylases (TyrHs) in natural product biosynthesis
constitute a new enzyme family in contrast to the nonheme iron enzymes for DOPA …

Biomimetic catalytic aerobic oxidation of C–sp (3)–H bonds under mild conditions using galactose oxidase model compound Cu II L

XH Liu, HY Yu, JY Huang, JH Su, C Xue, XT Zhou… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Developing highly efficient catalytic protocols for C–sp (3)–H bond aerobic oxidation under
mild conditions is a long-desired goal of chemists. Inspired by nature, a biomimetic …

Immobilization using Cu (II) and Zr (IV): Persistent and highly efficient activation of galactose oxidase by in-situ generation of hydroxyl radicals in concert with in-situ …

Y Chen, J Zou, J Sun, Q Qin, P Ji, W Feng - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) can be oxidized to 2, 5-diformylfuran (DFF) by galactose
oxidase (GO) with H 2 O 2 as the byproduct. The active site of GO is composed of the ECu …