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 …
Pollution, accidents, and misinformation have earned the pharmaceutical and chemical industry a poor public reputation, despite their undisputable importance to society …
Fusion proteins, understood as those created by joining two or more genes that originally encoded independent proteins, have numerous applications in biotechnology, from …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …