[HTML][HTML] The road to fully programmable protein catalysis

SL Lovelock, R Crawshaw, S Basler, C Levy, D Baker… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The ability to design efficient enzymes from scratch would have a profound effect on
chemistry, biotechnology and medicine. Rapid progress in protein engineering over the past …

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 …

Conditionally activatable photoredox catalysis in living systems

M Li, KH Gebremedhin, D Ma, Z Pu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The transformational effect of photoredox catalytic chemistries has inspired new
opportunities, enabling us to interrogate nature in ways that are not possible otherwise and …

Artificial metalloenzymes: challenges and opportunities

HJ Davis, TR Ward - ACS central science, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) result from the incorporation of an abiotic metal cofactor
within a protein scaffold. From the earliest techniques of transition metals adsorbed on silk …

Building enzymes through design and evolution

EJ Hossack, FJ Hardy, AP Green - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Designing efficient enzymes is a formidable challenge at the forefront of modern
biocatalysis. Here, we review recent developments in the field and illustrate how the …

Design of heme enzymes with a tunable substrate binding pocket adjacent to an open metal coordination site

I Kalvet, M Ortmayer, J Zhao, R Crawshaw… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The catalytic versatility of pentacoordinated iron is highlighted by the broad range of natural
and engineered activities of heme enzymes such as cytochrome P450s, which position a …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 metalloenzymes based on the biotin–streptavidin technology: enzymatic cascades and directed evolution

AD Liang, J Serrano-Plana, RL Peterson… - Accounts of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) result from anchoring a metal-containing
moiety within a macromolecular scaffold (protein or oligonucleotide). The resulting hybrid …

[HTML][HTML] Biocompatibility and therapeutic potential of glycosylated albumin artificial metalloenzymes

S Eda, I Nasibullin, K Vong, N Kudo, M Yoshida… - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
The ability of natural metalloproteins to prevent inactivation of their metal cofactors by
biological metabolites, such as glutathione, is an area that has been largely ignored in the …