Choose Your Own Adventure: A Comprehensive Database of Reactions Catalyzed by Cytochrome P450 BM3 Variants

DJ Fansher, JN Besna, A Fendri, JN Pelletier - ACS catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome P450 BM3 monooxygenase is the topic of extensive research as many
researchers have evolved this enzyme to generate a variety of products. However, the …

Rieske Oxygenases and Other Ferredoxin‐Dependent Enzymes: Electron Transfer Principles and Catalytic Capabilities

ME Runda, NAW de Kok, S Schmidt - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Enzymes that depend on sophisticated electron transfer via ferredoxins (Fds) exhibit
outstanding catalytic capabilities, but despite decades of research, many of them are still not …

Introduction of aromatic amino acids in electron transfer pathways yielded improved catalytic performance of cytochrome P450s

S Meng, Z Li, Y Ji, AJ Ruff, L Liu, MD Davari… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cytochrome P450s are versatile catalysts for biosynthesis applications. In the P450 catalytic
cycle, two electrons are required to reduce the heme iron and activate the subsequent …

A comparative molecular dynamics approach guides the tailoring of glycosyltransferases to meet synthetic applications

P Zhang, S Meng, Z Li, D Hirtz, L Elling, L Zhu, Y Ji… - Green …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The properties of natural products can be significantly influenced by glycosylation,
emphasizing the key role of glycosyltransferases (GTs) in this process. The pursuit of …

The thin line between monooxygenases and peroxygenases. P450s, UPOs, MMOs, and LPMOs: A brick to bridge fields of expertise

D Decembrino, D Cannella - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Many scientific fields, although driven by similar purposes and dealing with similar
technologies, often appear so isolated and far from each other that even the vocabularies to …

Mechanistic Insights into the Selective C–S Bond Formation by P450 TleB

H Gao, Y Fan, X He, X Peng, Z Li, Y Zheng, S Ji… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The P450 monooxygenase TleB (CYP107E48) catalyzes intramolecular C–S bond
formation in a thiol-containing substrate, yielding two sulfur-containing indolactam …

Constructing Protein-Scaffolded Multienzyme Assembly Enhances the Coupling Efficiency of the P450 System for Efficient Daidzein Biosynthesis from (2S) …

Z Wang, Y Dai, F Azi, Z Wang, W Xu… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Daidzein is a major isoflavone compound with an immense pharmaceutical value. This
study applied a novel P450 CYP82D26 which can biosynthesize daidzein from (2 S) …

Hijacking Chemical Reactions of P450 Enzymes for Altered Chemical Reactions and Asymmetric Synthesis

E Rajakumara, D Saniya, P Bajaj… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cytochrome P450s are heme-containing enzymes capable of the oxidative transformation of
a wide range of organic substrates. A protein scaffold that coordinates the heme iron, and …

Debottlenecking cytochrome P450-dependent metabolic pathways for the biosynthesis of commercial natural products

SM Germann, M Holtz, MK Jensen… - Natural Product …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2016 to the end of 2024 This highlight article aims to provide a perspective on the
challenges that novel biotechnological processes face in the biomanufacturing of natural …

Curse and Blessing of Non‐Proteinogenic Parts in Computational Enzyme Engineering

KT Korbeld, MJLJ Fürst - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Enzyme engineering aims to improve or install a new function in biocatalysts for applications
ranging from chemical synthesis to biomedicine. For decades, computational techniques …