Flavoprotein photochemistry: fundamental processes and photocatalytic perspectives

B Zhuang, U Liebl, MH Vos - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
Flavins are highly versatile redox-active and colored cofactors in a large variety of proteins.
These do include photoenzymes and photoreceptors, although the vast majority performs …

Choline oxidases

G Gadda - The Enzymes, 2020 - Elsevier
Choline oxidase catalyzes the four-electron, two-step, flavin-mediated oxidation of choline to
glycine betaine. The enzyme is important both for medical and biotechnological reasons …

Electronic structure methods for simulating flavin's spectroscopy and photophysics: comparison of multi-reference, TD-DFT, and single-reference wave function …

MP Kabir, P Ghosh, S Gozem - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The use of flavins and flavoproteins in photocatalytic, sensing, and biotechnological
applications has led to a growing interest in computationally modeling the excited-state …

Phylogeny and structure of fatty acid photodecarboxylases and glucose-methanol-choline oxidoreductases

VA Aleksenko, D Anand, A Remeeva, VV Nazarenko… - Catalysts, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glucose-methanol-choline (GMC) oxidoreductases are a large and diverse family of flavin-
binding enzymes found in all kingdoms of life. Recently, a new related family of proteins has …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of a robust bacterial pyranose oxidase that displays an unusual pH dependence

LL Santema, HJ Rozeboom, VP Borger… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pyranose oxidases are valuable biocatalysts, yet only a handful of bacterial pyranose
oxidases are known. These bacterial enzymes exhibit noteworthy distinctions from their …

Photogeneration and reactivity of flavin anionic semiquinone in a bifurcating electron transfer flavoprotein

HD Duan, SA Khan, AF Miller - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electron transfer bifurcation allows production of a strongly reducing carrier at the expense
of a weaker one, by redistributing energy among a pair of electrons. Thus, two weakly …

Kinetic and Bioinformatic Characterization of d-2-Hydroxyglutarate Dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

JA Quaye, G Gadda - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
d-2-Hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 (Pa D2HGDH)
catalyzes the oxidation of d-2-hydroxyglutarate to 2-ketoglutarate, which is a necessary step …

Electronic Structure Methods for Simulating Flavin's Spectroscopy and Photophysics: Comparison of Multi-Reference, Single-Reference, and TD-DFT Methods

MP Kabir, P Ghosh, S Gozem - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
The use of flavins and flavoproteins in photocatalytic, sensing, and biotechnological
applications has led to a growing interest in computationally modeling the excited state …