The rise of continuous flow biocatalysis–fundamentals, very recent developments and future perspectives

P De Santis, LE Meyer, S Kara - Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis community has witnessed a drastic increase in the number of studies for the use
of enzymes in continuously operated flow reactors. This significant interest arose from the …

Applied biocatalysis beyond just buffers–from aqueous to unconventional media. Options and guidelines

MMCH van Schie, JD Spöring, M Bocola… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In nature, enzymes conventionally operate under aqueous conditions. Because of this,
aqueous buffers are often the choice for reaction media when enzymes are applied in …

Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenases: tunable oxidative biocatalysts

MJLJ Fürst, A Gran-Scheuch, FS Aalbers… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Pollution, accidents, and misinformation have earned the pharmaceutical and chemical
industry a poor public reputation, despite their undisputable importance to society …

[HTML][HTML] Design and biocatalytic applications of genetically fused multifunctional enzymes

DT Monterrey, I Ayuso-Fernández, I Oroz-Guinea… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fusion proteins, understood as those created by joining two or more genes that originally
encoded independent proteins, have numerous applications in biotechnology, from …

Metal Affinity Fusion Enzyme Immobilization: Batch Process Showcase for Cascading Alcohol Oxidation and Bayer–Villiger Oxidation in Microaqueous Media

G Vernet, Y Ma, S Serban, A Basso… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenases (BVMOs) show great potential for the selective oxidation
of a wide scope of ketones with exceptional regio-, chemo-, or stereoselectivity to produce …

Unraveling alcohol dehydrogenase catalysis in organic–aqueous biphasic systems combining experiments and molecular dynamics simulations

N Zhang, JP Bittner, M Fiedler, T Beretta… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The use of oxidoreductases in organic–aqueous biphasic systems is advantageous
(effective solvation of reactants, minimization of substrate/product-induced inhibition …

Green and sustainable solvents for biocatalytic oxidations

RA Sheldon, ML Bode, N Mathebula - Current Opinion in Green and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The discovery that enzymes could function efficiently in organic solvents revolutionized their
use in industry but represented a change from the natural “green” solvent, water, to a host of …

Enzymatic self-sufficient hydride transfer processes

E Tassano, M Hall - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A number of self-sufficient hydride transfer processes have been reported in biocatalysis,
with a common feature being the dependence on nicotinamide as a cofactor. This cofactor is …

Continuous Flow Bioamination of Ketones in Organic Solvents at Controlled Water Activity using Immobilized ω‐Transaminases

W Böhmer, A Volkov… - Advanced Synthesis …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with biocatalysis in aqueous media, the use of enzymes in neat organic solvents
enables increased solubility of hydrophobic substrates and can lead to more favorable …

Engineering natural and noncanonical nicotinamide cofactor-dependent enzymes: design principles and technology development

E King, S Maxel, H Li - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Nicotinamide cofactors enable oxidoreductases to catalyze a myriad of important reactions
in biomanufacturing. Decades of research has focused on optimizing enzymes which utilize …