New trends in the biocatalytic production of nucleosidic active pharmaceutical ingredients using 2′-deoxyribosyltransferases

J Del Arco, J Acosta, J Fernández-Lucas - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, pharmaceutical industry demands competitive and eco-friendly processes for
active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) manufacturing. In this context, enzyme and whole …

[HTML][HTML] Biotechnological applications of purine and pyrimidine deaminases

J Del Arco, J Acosta, J Fernández-Lucas - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Deaminases, ubiquitous enzymes found in all living organisms from bacteria to humans,
serve diverse and crucial functions. Notably, purine and pyrimidine deaminases, while …

Thermostable enzymes for industrial biotechnology

S Sharma, S Vaid, B Bhat, S Singh, BK Bajaj - Advances in enzyme …, 2019 - Elsevier
Enzyme-based processes promise a sustainable and environmentally-friendly solution to
the pollution that results from industrial technologies. Thermozymes are extremely …

Enzyme‐mediated synthesis of Molnupiravir: paving the way for the application of biocatalysis in pharmaceutical industry

G Cruz, J Acosta, J Del Arco… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Molnupiravir (Lagevrio®) is an orally‐administered anti‐COVID‐19 agent. Due to the
urgency to meet the worldwide demand and the growing environmental concern, there is a …

Structural and functional characterization of thermostable biocatalysts for the synthesis of 6-aminopurine nucleoside-5′-monophospate analogues

J Del Arco, E Pérez, H Naitow, Y Matsuura… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
The present work describes the functional and structural characterization of adenine
phosphoribosyltransferase 2 from Thermus thermophilus HB8 (TtAPRT2). The combination …

Magnetic multi-enzymatic system for cladribine manufacturing

G Cruz, LP Saiz, M Bilal, L Eltoukhy, C Loderer… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Enzyme-mediated processes have proven to be a valuable and sustainable alternative to
traditional chemical methods. In this regard, the use of multi-enzymatic systems enables the …

Purine and pyrimidine salvage pathway in thermophiles: a valuable source of biocatalysts for the industrial production of nucleic acid derivatives

J Del Arco, J Fernández-Lucas - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Due to their similarity to natural counterparts, nucleic acid derivatives (nucleobases,
nucleosides, and nucleotides, among others) are interesting molecules for pharmaceutical …

One-pot multi-enzymatic production of purine derivatives with application in pharmaceutical and food industry

J Acosta, J Del Arco, S Martinez-Pascual… - Catalysts, 2018 - mdpi.com
Biocatalysis reproduce nature's synthetic strategies in order to synthesize different organic
compounds. Natural metabolic pathways usually involve complex networks to support …

Purine and pyrimidine phosphoribosyltransferases: a versatile tool for enzymatic synthesis of nucleoside-5'-monophosphates

JD Arco, J Fernandez-Lucas - Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2017 - benthamdirect.com
Background: In recent years, enzymatic methods have shown to be an efficient and
sustainable alternative for the synthesis of nucleosides and nucleoside-5'-monophosphates …

Hypoxanthine-Guanine Phosphoribosyltransferase/adenylate Kinase From Zobellia galactanivorans: A Bifunctional Catalyst for the Synthesis of Nucleoside-5 …

J Acosta, J Del Arco, ML Del Pozo… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In our search for novel biocatalysts for the synthesis of nucleic acid derivatives, we found a
good candidate in a putative dual-domain hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase …