Same substrate, many reactions: oxygen activation in flavoenzymes

E Romero, JR Gómez Castellanos, G Gadda… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over time, organisms have evolved strategies to cope with the abundance of dioxygen on
Earth. Oxygen-utilizing enzymes tightly control the reactions involving O2 mostly by …

[HTML][HTML] Flavoprotein monooxygenases: versatile biocatalysts

CE Paul, D Eggerichs, AH Westphal, D Tischler… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flavoprotein monooxygenases (FPMOs) are single-or two-component enzymes that
catalyze a diverse set of chemo-, regio-and enantioselective oxyfunctionalization reactions …

Photoinduced Promiscuity of Cyclohexanone Monooxygenase for the Enantioselective Synthesis of α‐Fluoroketones

Y Peng, Z Wang, Y Chen, W Xu, Y Hu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of mild, efficient, and enantioselective methods for preparing chiral
fluorinated compounds has been a long‐standing challenge. Herein, we report a …

Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenases: tunable oxidative biocatalysts

MJLJ Fürst, A Gran-Scheuch, FS Aalbers… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Pollution, accidents, and misinformation have earned the pharmaceutical and chemical
industry a poor public reputation, despite their undisputable importance to society …

Homogeneous oxygenase catalysis

Y Liang, J Wei, X Qiu, N Jiao - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Oxygenases-catalyzed reductive activation of molecular oxygen and incorporation of O
atoms into an organic molecule is undoubtedly one of the most attractive research areas …

Evolution of enzyme functionality in the flavin-containing monooxygenases

G Bailleul, G Yang, CR Nicoll, A Mattevi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Among the molecular mechanisms of adaptation in biology, enzyme functional
diversification is indispensable. By allowing organisms to expand their catalytic repertoires …

Ancestral-sequence reconstruction unveils the structural basis of function in mammalian FMOs

CR Nicoll, G Bailleul, F Fiorentini, ML Mascotti… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
Flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs) are ubiquitous in all domains of life and
metabolize a myriad of xenobiotics, including toxins, pesticides and drugs. However, despite …

Metal Affinity Fusion Enzyme Immobilization: Batch Process Showcase for Cascading Alcohol Oxidation and Bayer–Villiger Oxidation in Microaqueous Media

G Vernet, Y Ma, S Serban, A Basso… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenases (BVMOs) show great potential for the selective oxidation
of a wide scope of ketones with exceptional regio-, chemo-, or stereoselectivity to produce …

Progress in biocatalysis with immobilized viable whole cells: systems development, reaction engineering and applications

M Polakovič, J Švitel, M Bučko, J Filip, V Neděla… - Biotechnology …, 2017 - Springer
Viable microbial cells are important biocatalysts in the production of fine chemicals and
biofuels, in environmental applications and also in emerging applications such as …

Hot spots for the protein engineering of Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases

K Balke, A Beier, UT Bornscheuer - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases (BVMOs) are versatile biocatalysts for the
conversion of ketones to lactones or esters while also being able to efficiently oxidize …