Antioxidant supplementation in the treatment of aging-associated diseases

V Conti, V Izzo, G Corbi, G Russomanno… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Oxidative stress is generally considered as the consequence of an imbalance between pro-
and antioxidants species, which often results into indiscriminate and global damage at the …

Engineering specialized metabolic pathways—is there a room for enzyme improvements?

A Bar-Even, DS Tawfik - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent advances in enzyme engineering enable dramatic improvements in catalytic
efficiency and/or selectivity, as well as de novo engineering of enzymes to catalyze reactions …

Identification of novel cryptic multifunctional antimicrobial peptides from the human stomach enabled by a computational–experimental platform

K Pane, V Cafaro, A Avitabile, MDT Torres… - ACS Synthetic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Novel approaches are needed to combat antibiotic resistance. Here, we describe a
computational–experimental framework for the discovery of novel cryptic antimicrobial …

Overproduction of hydroxytyrosol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by heterologous overexpression of the Escherichia coli 4-hydroxyphenylacetate 3-monooxygenase

S Muniz-Calvo, R Bisquert, S Puig, JM Guillamon - Food chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydroxytyrosol (HT), which is a polyphenol with a high antioxidant power and many
associated health benefits, has been found in wines. Wine yeasts are capable of producing …

Regiospecific Oxidation of Chlorobenzene to 4-Chlororesorcinol, Chlorohydroquinone, 3-Chlorocatechol and 4-Chlorocatechol by Engineered Toluene o-Xylene …

KC Yanık-Yıldırım, OK Phul, OS Roth… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Toluene o-xylene monooxygenase (ToMO) was found to oxidize chlorobenzene to form 2-
chlorophenol (2-CP, 4%), 3-CP (12%), and 4-CP (84%) with a total product formation rate of …

Production of biofunctionalized MoS2 flakes with rationally modified lysozyme: a biocompatible 2D hybrid material

M Siepi, E Morales-Narváez, N Domingo, DM Monti… - 2D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Bioapplications of 2D materials embrace demanding features in terms of environmental
impact, toxicity and biocompatibility. Here we report on the use of a rationally modified …

Exploring the Promiscuity of Phenol Hydroxylase from Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 for the Biosynthesis of Phenolic Compounds

J Wang, X Shen, J Wang, Y Yang, Q Yuan… - ACS synthetic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Enzyme promiscuity plays an important role in developing biosynthetic pathways for novel
target products. Phenol hydroxylase (PH) from Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 is capable of …

Crystallographic analysis of active site contributions to regiospecificity in the diiron enzyme toluene 4-monooxygenase

LJ Bailey, JF Acheson, JG McCoy, NL Elsen… - Biochemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
Crystal structures of toluene 4-monooxygenase hydroxylase in complex with reaction
products and effector protein reveal active site interactions leading to regiospecificity …

Efficient whole cell biotransformation of tyrosol from L-tyrosine by engineered Escherichia coli

J Liu, K Wang, M Wang, H Deng, X Chen… - Enzyme and Microbial …, 2022 - Elsevier
An engineered Escherichia coli was constructed by co-expressing L-amino acid deaminase,
α-keto acid decarboxylase, alcohol dehydrogenase, and glucose dehydrogenase through …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering non-heme mono-and dioxygenases for biocatalysis

A Dror, A Fishman - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2012 - Elsevier
Oxygenases are ubiquitous enzymes that catalyze the introduction of one or two oxygen
atoms to unreactive chemical compounds. They require reduction equivalents from NADH or …