[HTML][HTML] Unspecific peroxygenases: The pot of gold at the end of the oxyfunctionalization rainbow?

DT Monterrey, A Menés-Rubio, M Keser… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fungal unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs) are among the most promising biocatalysts in
synthetic chemistry. The kaleidoscope of oxyfunctionalization reactions that are of industrial …

[HTML][HTML] Surfing the wave of oxyfunctionalization chemistry by engineering fungal unspecific peroxygenases

A Beltrán-Nogal, I Sánchez-Moreno… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The selective insertion of oxygen into non-activated organic molecules has to date been
considered of utmost importance to synthesize existing and next generation industrial …

Machine learning-guided co-optimization of fitness and diversity facilitates combinatorial library design in enzyme engineering

K Ding, M Chin, Y Zhao, W Huang, BK Mai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The effective design of combinatorial libraries to balance fitness and diversity facilitates the
engineering of useful enzyme functions, particularly those that are poorly characterized or …

Enabling peroxygenase activity in cytochrome P450 monooxygenases by engineering hydrogen peroxide tunnels

P Zhao, F Kong, Y Jiang, X Qin, X Tian… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Given prominent physicochemical similarities between H2O2 and water, we report a new
strategy for promoting the peroxygenase activity of P450 enzymes by engineering their …

Enzymatic Hydroxylations of sp3-Carbons

J Munch, P Pullmann, W Zhang, MJ Weissenborn - Acs Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enzymatic hydroxylation of activated and nonactivated sp3-carbons attracts keen interest
from the chemistry community as it is one of the most challenging tasks in organic synthesis …

Peroxide-mediated oxygenation of organic compounds by fungal peroxygenases

M Hofrichter, H Kellner, R Herzog, A Karich, J Kiebist… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs), whose sequences can be found in the genomes of
thousands of filamentous fungi, many yeasts and certain fungus-like protists, are fascinating …

Engineered P450 atom-transfer radical cyclases are bifunctional biocatalysts: reaction mechanism and origin of enantioselectivity

Y Fu, H Chen, W Fu, M Garcia-Borràs… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
New-to-nature radical biocatalysis has recently emerged as a powerful strategy to tame
fleeting open-shell intermediates for stereoselective transformations. In 2021, we introduced …

Computational-aided engineering of a selective unspecific peroxygenase toward enantiodivergent β-ionone hydroxylation

J Münch, J Soler, N Hünecke, D Homann… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs) perform oxyfunctionalizations for a wide range of
substrates utilizing H2O2 without the need for further reductive equivalents or electron …

Regiodivergent and Enantioselective Hydroxylation of C− H bonds by Synergistic Use of Protein Engineering and Exogenous Dual‐Functional Small Molecules

J Chen, S Dong, W Fang, Y Jiang, Z Chen… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is a great challenge to optionally access diverse hydroxylation products from a given
substrate bearing multiple reaction sites of sp3 and sp2 C− H bonds. Herein, we report the …

A modular two yeast species secretion system for the production and preparative application of unspecific peroxygenases

P Püllmann, A Knorrscheidt, J Münch… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Fungal unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs) represent an enzyme class catalysing versatile
oxyfunctionalisation reactions on a broad substrate scope. They are occurring as secreted …