Substrate channelling as an approach to cascade reactions

I Wheeldon, SD Minteer, S Banta, SC Barton… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Millions of years of evolution have produced biological systems capable of efficient one-pot
multi-step catalysis. The underlying mechanisms that facilitate these reaction processes are …

Biocatalytic cascades operating on macromolecular scaffolds and in confined environments

M Vázquez-González, C Wang, I Willner - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Biocatalytic cascades guide complex, efficient and selective intracellular transformations.
These unique features originate from the spatial organization of the biocatalysts in confined …

Self assembling nanoparticle enzyme clusters provide access to substrate channeling in multienzymatic cascades

JC Breger, JN Vranish, E Oh, MH Stewart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Access to efficient enzymatic channeling is desired for improving all manner of designer
biocatalysis. We demonstrate that enzymes constituting a multistep cascade can self …

Nanocaged enzymes with enhanced catalytic activity and increased stability against protease digestion

Z Zhao, J Fu, S Dhakal, A Johnson-Buck, M Liu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Cells routinely compartmentalize enzymes for enhanced efficiency of their metabolic
pathways. Here we report a general approach to construct DNA nanocaged enzymes for …

Enhanced activity of immobilized or chemically modified enzymes

Y Zhang, J Ge, Z Liu - AcS catalysis, 2015 - ACS Publications
Re-engineering enzymes with high activities in the given environments different from the
physiological one has been constantly pursued for application of enzymatic catalysis in …

[HTML][HTML] Proximity does not contribute to activity enhancement in the glucose oxidase–horseradish peroxidase cascade

Y Zhang, S Tsitkov, H Hess - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
A proximity effect has been invoked to explain the enhanced activity of enzyme cascades on
DNA scaffolds. Using the cascade reaction carried out by glucose oxidase and horseradish …

Reconfigurable DNA origami nanocapsule for pH-controlled encapsulation and display of cargo

H Ijäs, I Hakaste, B Shen, MA Kostiainen, V Linko - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
DNA nanotechnology provides a toolbox for creating custom and precise nanostructures
with nanometer-level accuracy. These nano-objects are often static by nature and serve as …

From protein film electrochemistry to nanoconfined enzyme cascades and the electrochemical leaf

FA Armstrong, B Cheng, RA Herold… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Protein film electrochemistry (PFE) has given unrivalled insight into the properties of redox
proteins and many electron-transferring enzymes, allowing investigations of otherwise ill …

Artificial Multienzyme Scaffolds: Pursuing in Vitro Substrate Channeling with an Overview of Current Progress

GA Ellis, WP Klein, G Lasarte-Aragones, M Thakur… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial multienzyme scaffolds are being developed for in vitro cascaded biocatalytic activity
and, in particular, accessing substrate channeling. This review covers progress in this field …

Engineered repeat proteins as scaffolds to assemble multi-enzyme systems for efficient cell-free biosynthesis

A Ledesma-Fernandez, S Velasco-Lozano… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multi-enzymatic cascades with enzymes arranged in close-proximity through a protein
scaffold can trigger a substrate channeling effect, allowing for efficient cofactor reuse with …