Enzymes' power for plastics degradation

V Tournier, S Duquesne, F Guillamot… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plastics are everywhere in our modern way of living, and their production keeps increasing
every year, causing major environmental concerns. Nowadays, the end-of-life management …

Protein design: From the aspect of water solubility and stability

R Qing, S Hao, E Smorodina, D Jin, A Zalevsky… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water solubility and structural stability are key merits for proteins defined by the primary
sequence and 3D-conformation. Their manipulation represents important aspects of the …

Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition

TCT Michaels, D Qian, A Šarić, M Vendruscolo… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The formation of amyloid fibrils is a general class of protein self-assembly behaviour, which
is associated with both functional biology and the development of a number of disorders …

Chemically fueled self‐assembly in biology and chemistry

K Das, L Gabrielli, LJ Prins - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Life is a non‐equilibrium state of matter maintained at the expense of energy. Nature uses
predominantly chemical energy stored in thermodynamically activated, but kinetically stable …

Artificial metalloenzymes: reaction scope and optimization strategies

F Schwizer, Y Okamoto, T Heinisch, Y Gu… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The incorporation of a synthetic, catalytically competent metallocofactor into a protein
scaffold to generate an artificial metalloenzyme (ArM) has been explored since the late …

α‐synuclein oligomers and fibrils: a spectrum of species, a spectrum of toxicities

P Alam, L Bousset, R Melki… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This review article provides an overview of the different species that α‐synuclein aggregates
can populate. It also attempts to reconcile conflicting views regarding the cytotoxic roles of …

The amyloid state and its association with protein misfolding diseases

TPJ Knowles, M Vendruscolo… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
The phenomenon of protein aggregation and amyloid formation has become the subject of
rapidly increasing research activities across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Such …

Experimental binding energies in supramolecular complexes

F Biedermann, HJ Schneider - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
On the basis of many literature measurements, a critical overview is given on essential
noncovalent interactions in synthetic supramolecular complexes, accompanied by analyses …

Catalytic applications of enzymes encapsulated in metal–organic frameworks

RJ Drout, L Robison, OK Farha - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The global catalyst industry is valued at nearly 20 billion USD and demand continues to rise.
Enzymes, biological macromolecules, are highly selective and efficient catalysts; however …

Modern methods of pre-treatment of plant material for the extraction of bioactive compounds

A Krakowska-Sieprawska, A Kiełbasa, K Rafińska… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this review, recent advances in the methods of pre-treatment of plant material for the
extraction of secondary metabolites with high biological activity are presented. The correct …