Extending the application of biocatalysis to meet the challenges of drug development

PN Devine, RM Howard, R Kumar… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
The pharmaceutical industry, driven by an increasing need to deliver new and more effective
medicines to patients, is increasingly turning to the use of engineered biocatalysts for both …

Biocatalytic reductive aminations with NAD (P) H-dependent enzymes: enzyme discovery, engineering and synthetic applications

B Yuan, D Yang, G Qu, NJ Turner, Z Sun - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral amines are pivotal building blocks for the pharmaceutical industry. Asymmetric
reductive amination is one of the most efficient and atom economic methodologies for the …

Screening and characterization of a diverse panel of metagenomic imine reductases for biocatalytic reductive amination

JR Marshall, P Yao, SL Montgomery, JD Finnigan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Finding faster and simpler ways to screen protein sequence space to enable the
identification of new biocatalysts for asymmetric synthesis remains both a challenge and a …

Biocatalysis: A pharma perspective

JP Adams, MJB Brown… - Advanced Synthesis …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biocatalysis over the past few years has matured into an essential tool for modern, cost
effective and sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing. While some reaction classes are …

Looking back: a short history of the discovery of enzymes and how they became powerful chemical tools

CM Heckmann, F Paradisi - ChemCatChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Enzymatic approaches to challenges in chemical synthesis are increasingly popular and
very attractive to industry given their green nature and high efficiency compared to traditional …

Chiral synthesis of LSD1 inhibitor GSK2879552 enabled by directed evolution of an imine reductase

M Schober, C MacDermaid, AA Ollis, S Chang… - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
Imine reductases catalyse the reductive amination of aldehydes or ketones with amines to
produce chiral amines—a key transformation in the preparation of fine chemicals and active …

Machine-directed evolution of an imine reductase for activity and stereoselectivity

EJ Ma, E Siirola, C Moore, A Kummer, M Stoeckli… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis is an effective tool to access chiral molecules that are otherwise hard to
synthesize or purify. Time-efficient processes are needed to develop enzymes that …

Enzymatic late‐stage modifications: better late than never

E Romero, BS Jones, BN Hogg… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Enzyme catalysis is gaining increasing importance in synthetic chemistry. Nowadays, the
growing number of biocatalysts accessible by means of bioinformatics and enzyme …

Biocatalysis in drug discovery and development

A Fryszkowska, PN Devine - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Enzyme catalysis, enabled by advances in protein engineering and directed evolution, is
beginning to transform chemical synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry. This review …

Discovery of an imine reductase for reductive amination of carbonyl compounds with sterically challenging amines

FF Chen, XF He, XX Zhu, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of structurally diverse amines is of fundamental significance in the
pharmaceutical industry due to the ubiquitous presence of amine motifs in biologically active …