Confining enzymes in porous organic frameworks: from synthetic strategy and characterization to healthcare applications

S Huang, G Chen, G Ouyang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes are a class of natural catalysts with high efficiency, specificity, and selectivity
unmatched by their synthetic counterparts and dictate a myriad of reactions that constitute …

Stimuli-responsive metal–organic framework nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery and medical applications

Z Zhou, M Vázquez-González, I Willner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive metal–organic framework nanoparticles, NMOFs, provide a versatile
platform for the controlled release of drugs and biomedical applications. The porous …

Hydrogen-bonded organic framework biomimetic entrapment allowing non-native biocatalytic activity in enzyme

G Chen, L Tong, S Huang, S Huang, F Zhu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nature programs the structural folding of an enzyme that allows its on-demand
biofunctionality; however, it is still a long-standing challenge to manually modulate an …

Green and scalable fabrication of high‐performance biocatalysts using covalent organic frameworks as enzyme carriers

Y Zheng, S Zhang, J Guo, R Shi, J Yu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Enzyme immobilization is essential to the commercial viability of various critical large‐scale
biocatalytic processes. However, challenges remain for the immobilization systems, such as …

Harnessing self-repairing and crystallization processes for effective enzyme encapsulation in covalent organic frameworks

Y Zhang, C Xing, Z Mu, Z Niu, X Feng… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Immobilization of fragile enzymes in crystalline porous materials offers new opportunities to
expand the applications of biocatalysts. However, limited by the pore size and/or harsh …

Fine-tuning the micro-environment to optimize the catalytic activity of enzymes immobilized in multivariate metal–organic frameworks

YM Li, J Yuan, H Ren, CY Ji, Y Tao, Y Wu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The artificial engineering of an enzyme's structural conformation to enhance its activity is
highly desired and challenging. Anisotropic reticular chemistry, best illustrated in the case of …

Enhancing enzyme activity by the modulation of covalent interactions in the confined channels of covalent organic frameworks

C Xing, P Mei, Z Mu, B Li, X Feng, Y Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Controllable regulations on the enzyme conformation to optimize catalytic performance are
highly desired for the immobilized biocatalysts yet remain challenging. Covalent organic …

Locking the ultrasound-induced active conformation of metalloenzymes in metal–organic frameworks

J Liang, MY Bin Zulkifli, J Yong, Z Du, Z Ao… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Enhancing the enzymatic activity inside metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is a critical
challenge in chemical technology and bio-technology, which, if addressed, will broaden …

Design and Advanced Manufacturing of NU‐1000 Metal–Organic Frameworks with Future Perspectives for Environmental and Renewable Energy Applications

R Abazari, S Sanati, MA Bajaber, MS Javed, PC Junk… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a relatively new family of materials that attract
lots of attention thanks to their unique features such as hierarchical porosity, active metal …

Protein-directed, hydrogen-bonded biohybrid framework

G Chen, S Huang, Y Shen, X Kou, X Ma, S Huang… - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
Here, we describe a versatile protein-directed assembly strategy that enables the
organization of different types of proteins and organic linkers into a highly crystalline hybrid …