Enhanced active-site electric field accelerates enzyme catalysis

C Zheng, Z Ji, II Mathews, SG Boxer - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The design and improvement of enzymes based on physical principles remain challenging.
Here we demonstrate that the principle of electrostatic catalysis can be leveraged to …

AQME: Automated quantum mechanical environments for researchers and educators

JV Alegre‐Requena, S Sowndarya SV… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
AQME, automated quantum mechanical environments, is a free and open‐source Python
package for the rapid deployment of automated workflows using cheminformatics and …

Computational design of enzymes for biotechnological applications

J Planas-Iglesias, SM Marques, GP Pinto, M Musil… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Enzymes are the natural catalysts that execute biochemical reactions upholding life. Their
natural effectiveness has been fine-tuned as a result of millions of years of natural evolution …

Electric field–assisted anion-π catalysis on carbon nanotubes in electrochemical microfluidic devices

MÁ Gutiérrez López, R Ali, ML Tan, N Sakai, T Wirth… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The vision to control the charges migrating during reactions with external electric fields is
attractive because of the promise of general catalysis, emergent properties, and …

Chemical modification of enzymes to improve biocatalytic performance

P Giri, AD Pagar, MD Patil, H Yun - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
Improvement in intrinsic enzymatic features is in many instances a prerequisite for the
scalable applicability of many industrially important biocatalysts. To this end, various …

Computational Modeling of Supramolecular Metallo-organic Cages–Challenges and Opportunities

TK Piskorz, V Martí-Centelles, TA Young, PJ Lusby… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Self-assembled metallo-organic cages have emerged as promising biomimetic platforms
that can encapsulate whole substrates akin to an enzyme active site. Extensive experimental …

Designing better enzymes: Insights from directed evolution

HA Bunzel, JLR Anderson, AJ Mulholland - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Enzymes can be created by computational design and directed
evolution.•Insights from directed evolution:•Active-site organization by H-bonding networks …

Development of a versatile and efficient C–N lyase platform for asymmetric hydroamination via computational enzyme redesign

Y Cui, Y Wang, W Tian, Y Bu, T Li, X Cui, T Zhu, R Li… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Although C–N bonds are ubiquitous in natural products, pharmaceuticals and
agrochemicals, biocatalysts forging these bonds with high atom-efficiency and …

Unlocking the computational design of metal–organic cages

A Tarzia, KE Jelfs - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic cages are macrocyclic structures that can possess an intrinsic void that can
hold molecules for encapsulation, adsorption, sensing, and catalysis applications. As metal …

Strong electric field force at the air/water interface drives fast sulfate production in the atmosphere

Y Liu, Q Ge, T Wang, R Zhang, K Li, K Gong, L Xie… - Chem, 2024 - cell.com
How tiny aqueous aerosol droplets significantly accelerate the atmospheric multiphase
reaction remains an open question. Here, we show both experimental and theoretical …