Photobiocatalytic strategies for organic synthesis

MA Emmanuel, SG Bender, C Bilodeau… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis has revolutionized chemical synthesis, providing sustainable methods for
preparing various organic molecules. In enzyme-mediated organic synthesis, most reactions …

[HTML][HTML] Stabilization of enzymes via immobilization: Multipoint covalent attachment and other stabilization strategies

RC Rodrigues, Á Berenguer-Murcia… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of enzymes in industrial processes requires the improvement of their features in
many instances. Enzyme immobilization, a requirement to facilitate the recovery and reuse …

Directed evolution: methodologies and applications

Y Wang, P Xue, M Cao, T Yu, ST Lane… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Directed evolution aims to expedite the natural evolution process of biological molecules
and systems in a test tube through iterative rounds of gene diversifications and library …

Single-sequence protein structure prediction using a language model and deep learning

R Chowdhury, N Bouatta, S Biswas, C Floristean… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
AlphaFold2 and related computational systems predict protein structure using deep learning
and co-evolutionary relationships encoded in multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) …

Biocatalysis: enzymatic synthesis for industrial applications

S Wu, R Snajdrova, JC Moore… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biocatalysis has found numerous applications in various fields as an alternative to chemical
catalysis. The use of enzymes in organic synthesis, especially to make chiral compounds for …

From nature to industry: Harnessing enzymes for biocatalysis

R Buller, S Lutz, RJ Kazlauskas, R Snajdrova… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Biocatalysis harnesses enzymes to make valuable products. This green technology is used
in countless applications from bench scale to industrial production and allows practitioners …

Stereodivergent atom-transfer radical cyclization by engineered cytochromes P450

Q Zhou, M Chin, Y Fu, P Liu, Y Yang - Science, 2021 - science.org
Naturally occurring enzymes can be a source of unnatural reactivity that can be molded by
directed evolution to generate efficient biocatalysts with valuable activities. Owing to the lack …

Navigating the unnatural reaction space: directed evolution of heme proteins for selective carbene and nitrene transfer

Y Yang, FH Arnold - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Despite the astonishing diversity of naturally occurring biocatalytic processes,
enzymes do not catalyze many of the transformations favored by synthetic chemists. Either …

Combining chemistry and protein engineering for new-to-nature biocatalysis

DC Miller, SV Athavale, FH Arnold - Nature Synthesis, 2022 - nature.com
Biocatalysis, the application of enzymes to solve synthetic problems of human import, has
blossomed into a powerful technology for chemical innovation. In the past decade, a …

Protein cages: from fundamentals to advanced applications

TGW Edwardson, MD Levasseur, S Tetter… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins that self-assemble into polyhedral shell-like structures are useful molecular
containers both in nature and in the laboratory. Here we review efforts to repurpose diverse …