Tunable polymeric scaffolds for enzyme immobilization

A Rodriguez-Abetxuko… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The number of methodologies for the immobilization of enzymes using polymeric supports is
continuously growing due to the developments in the fields of biotechnology, polymer …

Organophosphate-degrading metallohydrolases: Structure and function of potent catalysts for applications in bioremediation

G Schenk, I Mateen, TK Ng, MM Pedroso, N Mitić… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2016 - Elsevier
Organophosphate compounds (OPs) have been employed in the agricultural industry as
pesticides and insecticides for several decades. Many of the methods used currently for the …

A microbial electrochemical technology to detect and degrade organophosphate pesticides

AA Karbelkar, EE Reynolds, R Ahlmark… - ACS Central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Organophosphate (OP) pesticides cause hundreds of illnesses and deaths annually.
Unfortunately, exposures are often detected by monitoring degradation products in blood …

Functional enzyme–polymer complexes

C Waltmann, CE Mills, J Wang, B Qiao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Engineered and native enzymes are poised to solve challenges in medicine,
bioremediation, and biotechnology. One important goal is the possibility of upcycling …

Assessment of composite with fibers as a support for antibacterial nanomaterials: A case study of bacterial cellulose, polylactide and usual textile

I Lyagin, O Maslova, N Stepanov, D Presnov… - Fibers, 2022 - mdpi.com
To obtain composite fiber materials with antibacterial properties, the samples of bacterial
cellulose (BC), polylactide (PLA) and usual fibers (FM) were modified by poly-ε-caprolactone …

[HTML][HTML] Self-assembly and regeneration strategy for mitigation of membrane biofouling by the exploitation of enzymatic nanoparticles

Y Lan, DW Hiebner, E Casey - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Biofouling of membranes is an unresolved problem in the water industry. Numerous anti-
biofouling membrane technologies have been proposed but the duration of their anti-fouling …

Biomolecular engineering of biocatalysts hydrolyzing neurotoxic organophosphates

IV Lyagin, EN Efremenko - Biochimie, 2018 - Elsevier
Novel methods of molecular modeling help solving urgent problems in drug design, directed
evolution of biocatalysts and biosensors, and a lot of other research fields. Implementation of …

Highly active biocatalytic coatings from protein–polymer diblock copolymers

A Huang, G Qin, BD Olsen - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015 - ACS Publications
A method for fabricating nanostructured biocatalysts using bioconjugate block copolymer
self-assembly is demonstrated, yielding very high protein loadings and activity per unit area …

Complex coacervate core micelles for the dispersion and stabilization of organophosphate hydrolase in organic solvents

CE Mills, A Obermeyer, X Dong, J Walker, BD Olsen - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organophosphate (OP) nerve agents are a class of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) that
exist as bulk stocks in current and past war zones. Thus, a technology that can perform on …

Promotion of phosphoester hydrolysis by the ZrIV-based metal-organic framework UiO-67

P Nunes, AC Gomes, M Pillinger, IS Gonçalves… - Microporous and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The Zr IV-based metal-organic framework (MOF) UiO-67 has been examined as a promoter
of the hydrolysis of phosphoester bonds by using sodium para-nitrophenylphosphate …