Serial femtosecond crystallography

TRM Barends, B Stauch, V Cherezov… - Nature reviews Methods …, 2022 - nature.com
With the advent of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), new, high-throughput serial
crystallography techniques for macromolecular structure determination have emerged …

Biochemistry of aerobic biological methane oxidation

CW Koo, AC Rosenzweig - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Methanotrophic bacteria represent a potential route to methane utilization and mitigation of
methane emissions. In the first step of their metabolic pathway, aerobic methanotrophs use …

Using X-ray free-electron lasers for spectroscopy of molecular catalysts and metalloenzymes

U Bergmann, J Kern, RW Schoenlein, P Wernet… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The metal centres in metalloenzymes and molecular catalysts are responsible for the
rearrangement of atoms and electrons during complex chemical reactions, and they enable …

Direct Methane Oxidation by Copper-and Iron-Dependent Methane Monooxygenases

FJ Tucci, AC Rosenzweig - Chemical reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to climate change and is
primarily regulated in Nature by methanotrophic bacteria, which consume methane gas as …

Radiation damage to biological macromolecules∗

EF Garman, M Weik - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
In this review, we describe recent research developments into radiation damage effects in
macromolecular X-ray crystallography observed at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron …

An on-demand, drop-on-drop method for studying enzyme catalysis by serial crystallography

A Butryn, PS Simon, P Aller, P Hinchliffe… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Serial femtosecond crystallography has opened up many new opportunities in structural
biology. In recent years, several approaches employing light-inducible systems have …

X-ray free-electron laser studies reveal correlated motion during isopenicillin N synthase catalysis

P Rabe, JJAG Kamps, KD Sutherlin, JDS Linyard… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS) catalyzes the unique reaction of l-δ-(α-aminoadipoyl)-l-
cysteinyl-d-valine (ACV) with dioxygen giving isopenicillin N (IPN), the precursor of all …

Small-molecule tunnels in metalloenzymes viewed as extensions of the active site

R Banerjee, JD Lipscomb - Accounts of chemical research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Rigorous substrate selectivity is a hallmark of enzyme catalysis. This selectivity
is generally ascribed to a thermodynamically favorable process of substrate binding to the …

In-depth analysis of biocatalysts by microfluidics: An emerging source of data for machine learning

M Vasina, D Kovar, J Damborsky, Y Ding, T Yang… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the vastly increasing demand for novel biotechnological products is supported
by the continuous development of biocatalytic applications that provide sustainable green …

Bioinspired microenvironment modulation of metal–organic framework-based catalysts for selective methane oxidation

J Sui, ML Gao, B Qian, C Liu, Y Pan, Z Meng, D Yuan… - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Inspiration from natural enzymes enabling creationary catalyst design is appealing yet
remains extremely challenging for selective methane (CH 4) oxidation. This study presents …