Noncanonical amino acids in biocatalysis

Z Birch-Price, FJ Hardy, TM Lister, AR Kohn… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In recent years, powerful genetic code reprogramming methods have emerged that allow
new functional components to be embedded into proteins as noncanonical amino acid …

Designing artificial metalloenzymes by tuning of the environment beyond the primary coordination sphere

C Van Stappen, Y Deng, Y Liu, H Heidari… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metalloenzymes catalyze a variety of reactions using a limited number of natural amino
acids and metallocofactors. Therefore, the environment beyond the primary coordination …

Artificial metalloenzymes: reaction scope and optimization strategies

F Schwizer, Y Okamoto, T Heinisch, Y Gu… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The incorporation of a synthetic, catalytically competent metallocofactor into a protein
scaffold to generate an artificial metalloenzyme (ArM) has been explored since the late …

Engineering pyrrolysine systems for genetic code expansion and reprogramming

DL Dunkelmann, JW Chin - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over the past 16 years, genetic code expansion and reprogramming in living organisms has
been transformed by advances that leverage the unique properties of pyrrolysyl-tRNA …

Hammett relationship in oxidase‐mimicking metal–organic frameworks revealed through a protein‐engineering‐inspired strategy

J Wu, Z Wang, X Jin, S Zhang, T Li, Y Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While the unique physicochemical properties of nanomaterials that enable regulation of
nanozyme activities are demonstrated in many systems, quantitative relationships between …

Expanding the enzyme universe with genetically encoded unnatural amino acids

I Drienovská, G Roelfes - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
The emergence of robust methods to expand the genetic code allows incorporation of non-
canonical amino acids into the polypeptide chain of proteins, thus making it possible to …

Recent advances in biocatalysis with chemical modification and expanded amino acid alphabet

AD Pagar, MD Patil, DT Flood, TH Yoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The two main strategies for enzyme engineering, directed evolution and rational design,
have found widespread applications in improving the intrinsic activities of proteins. Although …

Synthetic Fe/Cu complexes: toward understanding heme-copper oxidase structure and function

SM Adam, GB Wijeratne, PJ Rogler, DE Diaz… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) are terminal enzymes on the mitochondrial or bacterial
respiratory electron transport chain, which utilize a unique heterobinuclear active site to …

Chemical‐reductant‐free electrochemical deuteration reaction using deuterium oxide

X Liu, R Liu, J Qiu, X Cheng, G Li - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We report a method for the electrochemical deuteration of α, β‐unsaturated carbonyl
compounds under catalyst‐and external‐reductant‐free conditions, with deuteration rates as …

Biocatalysis with unnatural amino acids: enzymology meets xenobiology

F Agostini, JS Völler, B Koksch… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of xenobiology is to design biological systems endowed with unusual biochemical
functions, whereas enzymology concerns the study of enzymes, the workhorses of …