New trends in the biocatalytic production of nucleosidic active pharmaceutical ingredients using 2′-deoxyribosyltransferases

J Del Arco, J Acosta, J Fernández-Lucas - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, pharmaceutical industry demands competitive and eco-friendly processes for
active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) manufacturing. In this context, enzyme and whole …

Chemical and chemoenzymatic stereoselective synthesis of β-nucleosides and their analogues

HJ Wang, YY Zhong, YC Xiao, FE Chen - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
β-Nucleosides are fundamental building blocks of biological systems and are widely used
as therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer and viral infections, among others. In the …

Snapshots of the reaction coordinate of a thermophilic 2′-deoxyribonucleoside/ribonucleoside transferase

P Tang, CJ Harding, AL Dickson, RG da Silva… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nucleosides are ubiquitous to life and are required for the synthesis of DNA, RNA, and other
molecules crucial for cell survival. Despite the notoriously difficult organic synthesis of …

[HTML][HTML] Novel directed enzyme prodrug therapy for cancer treatment based on 2′-deoxyribosyltransferase-conjugated magnetic nanoparticles

E Pérez, J Acosta, V Pisabarro, M Cordani… - Biomolecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
Directed enzyme prodrug therapy (DEPT) strategies show promise in mitigating
chemotherapy side effects during cancer treatment. Among these, the use of immobilized …

Enzymatic Synthesis of Therapeutic Nucleosides using a Highly Versatile Purine Nucleoside 2'‐DeoxyribosylTransferase from Trypanosoma brucei

E Pérez, PA Sánchez‐Murcia, J Jordaan… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The use of enzymes for the synthesis of nucleoside analogues offers several advantages
over multistep chemical methods, including chemo‐, regio‐and stereoselectivity as well as …

Rational design of a thermostable 2′-deoxyribosyltransferase for nelarabine production by prediction of disulfide bond engineering sites

G Cruz, J Acosta, JM Mancheño, J Del Arco… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the major drawbacks of the industrial implementation of enzymatic processes is the
low operational stability of the enzymes under tough industrial conditions. In this respect, the …

Magnetic multi-enzymatic system for cladribine manufacturing

G Cruz, LP Saiz, M Bilal, L Eltoukhy, C Loderer… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Enzyme-mediated processes have proven to be a valuable and sustainable alternative to
traditional chemical methods. In this regard, the use of multi-enzymatic systems enables the …

Purine and pyrimidine salvage pathway in thermophiles: a valuable source of biocatalysts for the industrial production of nucleic acid derivatives

J Del Arco, J Fernández-Lucas - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Due to their similarity to natural counterparts, nucleic acid derivatives (nucleobases,
nucleosides, and nucleotides, among others) are interesting molecules for pharmaceutical …

One-pot multi-enzymatic production of purine derivatives with application in pharmaceutical and food industry

J Acosta, J Del Arco, S Martinez-Pascual… - Catalysts, 2018 - mdpi.com
Biocatalysis reproduce nature's synthetic strategies in order to synthesize different organic
compounds. Natural metabolic pathways usually involve complex networks to support …

Benzimidazole nucleosides: Antiviral and antitumour activities and methods of synthesis

MI Kharitonova, ID Konstantinova… - Russian Chemical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The review systematically covers experimental data on the synthesis of modified
benzimidazole nucleosides and evaluation of their biological activity published mainly over …