Directed evolution of enzymes for industrial biocatalysis

JL Porter, RA Rusli, DL Ollis - ChemBioChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Enzymes have the potential to catalyse a wide variety of chemical reactions. They are
increasingly being sought as environmentally friendly and cost‐effective alternatives to …

Continuous-flow biochemical reactors: Biocatalysis, bioconversion, and bioanalytical applications utilizing immobilized microfluidic enzyme reactors

L Hajba, A Guttman - Journal of Flow Chemistry, 2016 - Springer
The utilization of continuous-flow biochemical reactors, including biocatalysis,
biotransformation, and biochemical interaction based flow-analytical systems, and enzyme …

A general and efficient strategy for generating the stable enzymes

XF Zhang, GY Yang, Y Zhang, Y Xie, SG Withers… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The local flexibility of an enzyme's active center plays pivotal roles in catalysis, however,
little is known about how the flexibility of these flexible residues affects stability. In this study …

Structural features determining thermal adaptation of esterases

F Kovacic, A Mandrysch, C Poojari… - Protein Engineering …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The adaptation of microorganisms to extreme living temperatures requires the evolution of
enzymes with a high catalytic efficiency under these conditions. Such extremophilic …

Green biocatalysis

RN Patel - 2016 - books.google.com
Green Biocatalysis presents an exciting green technology that uses mild and safe processes
with high regioselectivity and enantioselectivity. Bioprocesses are carried out under ambient …

Label-free surface enhanced Raman scattering approach for high-throughput screening of biocatalysts

C Westley, Y Xu, AJ Carnell, NJ Turner… - Analytical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Biocatalyst discovery and directed evolution are central to many pharmaceutical research
programs, yet the lack of robust high-throughput screening methods for large libraries of …

Chaperonin-inspired pH protection by mesoporous silica SBA-15 on myoglobin and lysozyme

MM Lynch, J Liu, M Nigra, MO Coppens - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
While enzymes are valuable tools in many fields of biotechnology, they are fragile and must
be protected against denaturing conditions such as unfavorable solution pH. Within living …

De novo construction of multi-enzyme system for one-pot deracemization of (R, S)-1-phenyl-1, 2-ethanediol by stereoinversion of (S)-enantiomer to the corresponding …

B Li, Y Nie, XQ Mu, Y Xu - Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic, 2016 - Elsevier
Deracemization via oxidoreductive stereoinversion is one of the most attractive methods for
the preparation of enantiomerically pure compounds. However, available enzymatic system …

In situ expression of (R)-carbonyl reductase rebalancing an asymmetric pathway improves stereoconversion efficiency of racemic mixture to (S)-phenyl-1, 2-ethanediol …

R Zhang, L Wang, Y Xu, H Liang, X Zhou, J Jiang… - Microbial Cell …, 2016 - Springer
Background Candida parapsilosis (R)-carbonyl reductase (RCR) and (S)-carbonyl
reductase (SCR) are involved in the stereoconversion of racemic (R, S)-1-phenyl-1, 2 …

Development of chemoenzymatic processes: an industrial perspective

R Kumar, C Martinez, V Martin, J Wong - Green Biocatalysis, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Integration of biocatalysis in synthetic route for the development of pharmaceutical
intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) holds great promise, as evident …