Artificial metalloenzymes: challenges and opportunities

HJ Davis, TR Ward - ACS central science, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) result from the incorporation of an abiotic metal cofactor
within a protein scaffold. From the earliest techniques of transition metals adsorbed on silk …

Engineering and emerging applications of artificial metalloenzymes with whole cells

M Wittwer, U Markel, J Schiffels, J Okuda, DF Sauer… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
The field of artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) is rapidly growing and ArMs are attracting
increasing attention, for example, in the fields of biosensing and drug therapy. Protein …

Chemogenetic evolution of a peroxidase-like artificial metalloenzyme

U Markel, DF Sauer, M Wittwer, J Schiffels, H Cui… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Directed evolution has helped enzyme engineering to remarkable successes in the past. A
main challenge in directed evolution is to find the most suitable starting point, that is, an …

Functionalization of ruthenium olefin-metathesis catalysts for interdisciplinary studies in chemistry and biology

T Matsuo - Catalysts, 2021 - mdpi.com
Hoveyda–Grubbs-type complexes, ruthenium catalysts for olefin metathesis, have gained
increased interest as a research target in the interdisciplinary research fields of chemistry …

Chemoenzymatic cascade for stilbene production from cinnamic acid catalyzed by ferulic acid decarboxylase and an artificial metathease

MAS Mertens, DF Sauer, U Markel, J Schiffels… - Catalysis Science & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the preparation of symmetrical stilbene derivatives in a two-step one-pot cascade
reaction based on enzymatic decarboxylation of cinnamic acid followed by olefin cross …

[HTML][HTML] Cyclization Strategies in Carbonyl–Olefin Metathesis: An Up-to-Date Review

X Zhang - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
The metathesis reaction between carbonyl compounds and olefins has emerged as a potent
strategy for facilitating swift functional group interconversion and the construction of intricate …

Engineering a metathesis-catalyzing artificial metalloenzyme based on HaloTag

S Fischer, TR Ward, AD Liang - ACS catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) are created by embedding a synthetic metal catalyst into a
protein scaffold. ArMs have the potential to merge the catalytic advantages of natural …

Encapsulation of the Hoveyda–Grubbs 2nd generation catalyst in magnetically separable alginate/mesoporous carbon beads for olefin metathesis reactions in water

Z Tunalı, K Sagdic, F Inci, BÖ Öztürk - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, nano-sized mesoporous carbon-supported HG2 and magnetic γ-Fe2O3
nanoparticles were encapsulated within calcium alginate gels using a one-pot procedure …

Incorporation of a Cp*Rh(III)-dithiophosphate Cofactor with Latent Activity into a Protein Scaffold Generates a Biohybrid Catalyst Promoting C(sp2)–H Bond …

S Kato, A Onoda, AR Grimm, K Tachikawa… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A Cp* Rh (III)-dithiophosphate cofactor with “latent” catalytic activity was developed to
construct an artificial metalloenzyme representing a new type of biohybrid catalyst which is …

[HTML][HTML] Construction of a whole-cell biohybrid catalyst using a Cp* Rh (III)-dithiophosphate complex as a precursor of a metal cofactor

S Kato, A Onoda, AR Grimm, U Schwaneberg… - Journal of Inorganic …, 2021 - Elsevier
A whole-cell biohybrid catalyst where a (pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) rhodium (III)(Cp* Rh
(III)) complex was covalently incorporated into the cavity of nitrobindin (NB), a β-barrel …