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 and emerging applications of artificial metalloenzymes with whole cells

M Wittwer, U Markel, J Schiffels, J Okuda, DF Sauer… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
The field of artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) is rapidly growing and ArMs are attracting
increasing attention, for example, in the fields of biosensing and drug therapy. Protein …

Algorithm-aided engineering of aliphatic halogenase WelO5* for the asymmetric late-stage functionalization of soraphens

J Büchler, SH Malca, D Patsch, M Voss… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Late-stage functionalization of natural products offers an elegant route to create novel
entities in a relevant biological target space. In this context, enzymes capable of …

Synthetic prodrug design enables biocatalytic activation in mice to elicit tumor growth suppression

I Nasibullin, I Smirnov, P Ahmadi, K Vong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Considering the intrinsic toxicities of transition metals, their incorporation into drug therapies
must operate at minimal amounts while ensuring adequate catalytic activity within complex …

Artificial Metalloenzyme-Catalyzed Enantioselective Amidation via Nitrene Insertion in Unactivated C(sp3)–H Bonds

K Yu, Z Zou, NV Igareta, R Tachibana… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enantioselective C–H amidation offers attractive means to assemble C–N bonds to
synthesize high-added value, nitrogen-containing molecules. In recent decades …

Learning from Protein Engineering by Deconvolution of Multi‐Mutational Variants

F Hollmann, J Sanchis, MT Reetz - … Chemie International Edition, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This review analyzes a development in biochemistry, enzymology and biotechnology that
originally came as a surprise. Following the establishment of directed evolution of …

Design and evolution of chimeric streptavidin for protein-enabled dual gold catalysis

F Christoffel, NV Igareta, MM Pellizzoni… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Artificial metalloenzymes result from anchoring an organometallic catalyst within an
evolvable protein scaffold. Thanks to its dimer of dimers quaternary structure, streptavidin …

Creating new-to-nature carbon fixation: A guide

H Schulz-Mirbach, B Dronsella, H He, TJ Erb - Metabolic Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Synthetic biology aims at designing new biological functions from first principles. These new
designs allow to expand the natural solution space and overcome the limitations of naturally …

Artificial metalloenzymes

T Vornholt, F Leiss-Maier, WJ Jeong… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The development of artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) aims to expand the capabilities of
enzymatic catalysis, most notably towards new reaction mechanisms. Frequently, ArMs …

The potential of RuBisCO in CO2 capture and utilization

KD Cocon, P Luis - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon capture technology is currently considered one of the promising technologies to
mitigate atmospheric CO 2 concentration. CO 2 capture and utilization (CCU) captures …