The biologically relevant coordination chemistry of iron and nitric oxide: electronic structure and reactivity

N Lehnert, E Kim, HT Dong, JB Harland… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of
physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially …

The central role of cytochrome P450 in xenobiotic metabolism—a brief review on a fascinating enzyme family

F Esteves, J Rueff, M Kranendonk - Journal of xenobiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Human Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes constitute a superfamily of membrane-bound
hemoproteins that are responsible for the metabolism of a wide variety of clinically …

Designing artificial metalloenzymes by tuning of the environment beyond the primary coordination sphere

C Van Stappen, Y Deng, Y Liu, H Heidari… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metalloenzymes catalyze a variety of reactions using a limited number of natural amino
acids and metallocofactors. Therefore, the environment beyond the primary coordination …

Engineering cytochrome P450 enzyme systems for biomedical and biotechnological applications

Z Li, Y Jiang, FP Guengerich, L Ma, S Li… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s) are broadly distributed among living organisms and
play crucial roles in natural product biosynthesis, degradation of xenobiotics, steroid …

Mechanisms of cytochrome P450-catalyzed oxidations

FP Guengerich - ACS catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Enzymes are complex biological catalysts and are critical to life. Most oxidations of
chemicals are catalyzed by cytochrome P450 (P450, CYP) enzymes, which generally utilize …

Assessing the performance of the MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 1. The accuracy of binding free energy calculations based on molecular dynamics simulations

T Hou, J Wang, Y Li, W Wang - Journal of chemical information …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The Molecular Mechanics/Poisson− Boltzmann Surface Area (MM/PBSA) and the Molecular
Mechanics/Generalized Born Surface Area (MM/GBSA) methods calculate binding free …

Heme enzyme structure and function

TL Poulos - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Metalloporphyrins are widely used throughout the biosphere, and of these heme (iron
protoporphyrin IX, Figure 1) is one of the most abundant and widely used. Heme shuttles …

Automated docking using a Lamarckian genetic algorithm and an empirical binding free energy function

GM Morris, DS Goodsell, RS Halliday… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
A novel and robust automated docking method that predicts the bound conformations of
flexible ligands to macromolecular targets has been developed and tested, in combination …

P450 BM3 (CYP102A1): connecting the dots

CJC Whitehouse, SG Bell, LL Wong - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
P450BM3 (CYP102A1), a fatty acid hydroxylase from Bacillus megaterium, has been
extensively studied over a period of almost forty years. The enzyme has been redesigned to …

Mechanism of oxidation reactions catalyzed by cytochrome P450 enzymes

B Meunier, SP De Visser, S Shaik - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
The cytochromes P450 constitute a large family of cysteinato-heme enzymes, 1-9 are
present in all forms of life (plants, bacteria, and mammals), and play a key role in the …