Cell-free enzyme cascades—application and transition from development to industrial implementation

M Teshima, VP Willers, V Sieber - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•State-of-the-art in vitro enzyme cascades to assimilate CO 2-derived C1
compounds.•Current transitioning state of the biomass-based production of commodity …

Photoelectrocatalytic organic synthesis: a versatile method for the green production of building-block chemicals

SY Li, KF Huang, ZY Tang, JH Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The rising energy crisis and environmental problems are urging the development of more
sustainable organic synthetic methods. Photoelectrocatalytic organic synthesis (PECOS) is …

Design, construction, and application of noncanonical redox cofactor infrastructures

WB Black, S Perea, H Li - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Noncanonical redox cofactors (NRCs) can overcome the limitations of natural
cofactors.•NRCs enable specific delivery of reducing power outside of biological …

Artificial Biocatalysis: Quo Vadis?

AA Ingram, K Oike - ChemCatChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Astonishing progress has been achieved in unlocking new‐to‐nature biocatalysis in the past
decades. The progress in protein engineering enabled research to efficiently incorporate …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro biotransformation (ivBT): definitions, opportunities, and challenges

YHP Zhang, Z Zhu, C You, L Zhang… - Synthetic Biology and …, 2023 - sciepublish.com
Great needs always motivate the birth and development of new disciplines and tools. Here
we propose in vitro BioTransformation (ivBT) as a new biomanufacturing platform, between …

Engineering Glucose Dehydrogenase to Favor Totally Synthetic Biomimetic Cofactors Containing Carboxyl Group

J Zhou, X Gu, Y Zhu, Z Tao, Y Ni - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The utilization of unnatural nicotinamide cofactors for reactions catalyzed by
oxidoreductases has gained increasing interest. Totally synthetic nicotinamide cofactor …

Exploring enzyme promiscuity to unlock new-to-nature reactions for biocatalysis

S Güner - 2023 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
In this work, extension of the biocatalytic toolbox related to the oligomerization of C 1
synthons and novel reaction mechanisms was investigated. A synthetic enzyme cascade …