[HTML][HTML] Biocatalysis

EL Bell, W Finnigan, SP France, AP Green… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biocatalysis has become an important aspect of modern organic synthesis, both in
academia and across the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Its success has been …

Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Matching the kinetics of natural enzymes with a single-atom iron nanozyme

S Ji, B Jiang, H Hao, Y Chen, J Dong, Y Mao… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Developing artificial enzymes with the excellent catalytic performance of natural enzymes
has been a long-standing goal for chemists. Single-atom catalysts with well-defined atomic …

Enhancing catalytic activity of a nickel single atom enzyme by polynary heteroatom doping for ferroptosis-based tumor therapy

Y Zhu, W Wang, P Gong, Y Zhao, Y Pan, J Zou, R Ao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As a rising generation of nanozymes, single atom enzymes show significant promise for
cancer therapy, due to their maximum atom utilization efficiency and well-defined electronic …

Deep learning-based kcat prediction enables improved enzyme-constrained model reconstruction

F Li, L Yuan, H Lu, G Li, Y Chen, MKM Engqvist… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Enzyme turnover numbers (k cat) are key to understanding cellular metabolism, proteome
allocation and physiological diversity, but experimentally measured k cat data are sparse …

UniKP: a unified framework for the prediction of enzyme kinetic parameters

H Yu, H Deng, J He, JD Keasling, X Luo - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Prediction of enzyme kinetic parameters is essential for designing and optimizing enzymes
for various biotechnological and industrial applications, but the limited performance of …

Spatial heterogeneity in the mammalian liver

S Ben-Moshe, S Itzkovitz - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Hepatocytes operate in highly structured repeating anatomical units termed liver lobules.
Blood flow along the lobule radial axis creates gradients of oxygen, nutrients and hormones …

The catalytic role of glutathione transferases in heterologous anthocyanin biosynthesis

M Eichenberger, T Schwander, S Hüppi, J Kreuzer… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Anthocyanins are ubiquitous plant pigments used in a variety of technological applications.
Yet, after over a century of research, the penultimate biosynthetic step to anthocyanidins …

Loop dynamics and the evolution of enzyme activity

M Corbella, GP Pinto, SCL Kamerlin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
In the early 2000s, Tawfik presented his 'New View'on enzyme evolution, highlighting the
role of conformational plasticity in expanding the functional diversity of limited repertoires of …

Improving the phenotype predictions of a yeast genome‐scale metabolic model by incorporating enzymatic constraints

BJ Sánchez, C Zhang, A Nilsson… - Molecular systems …, 2017 - embopress.org
Genome‐scale metabolic models (GEM s) are widely used to calculate metabolic
phenotypes. They rely on defining a set of constraints, the most common of which is that the …