Metal ions, metal chelators and metal chelating assay as antioxidant method

İ Gulcin, SH Alwasel - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heavy metals are essential for a wide range of biological processes, including the growth
and reproduction of cells, synthesis of biomolecules, many enzymatic reactions, and the …

Engineering enzymes for noncanonical amino acid synthesis

PJ Almhjell, CE Boville, FH Arnold - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The standard proteinogenic amino acids grant access to a myriad of chemistries that
harmonize to create life. Outside of these twenty canonical protein building blocks are …

Noncanonical Amino Acids: Bringing New-to-Nature Functionalities to Biocatalysis

B Brouwer, F Della-Felice, JH Illies… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis has become an important component of modern organic chemistry, presenting
an efficient and environmentally friendly approach to synthetic transformations. Advances in …

Expanding the Genetic Code of Bioelectrocatalysis and Biomaterials

Y Chemla, F Kaufman, M Amiram, L Alfonta - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Genetic code expansion is a promising genetic engineering technology that incorporates
noncanonical amino acids into proteins alongside the natural set of 20 amino acids. This …

Future prospects for noncanonical amino acids in biological therapeutics

A Rezhdo, M Islam, M Huang… - Current opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Use of noncanonical amino acid (ncAAs) in therapeutics requires careful
evaluation.•NcAA-mediated strategies enable important routes to precisely defined …

Enzyme-mimetic catalyst architectures: the role of second coordination sphere in catalytic activity

B Roy, T Govindaraju - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Enzymes with well-defined three-dimensional structure have in-built information for
molecular organization in the near vicinity of the active sites—popularly known as enzyme …

Metal-hydrogen-pi-bonded organic frameworks

J Zhu, L Samperisi, M Kalaj, JA Chiong, JB Bailey… - Dalton …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the synthesis and characterization of a new series of permanently porous, three-
dimensional metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), M-HAF-2 (M= Fe, Ga, or In), constructed …

Reaching New Heights in Genetic Code Manipulation with High Throughput Screening

BR Lino, SJ Williams, ME Castor… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The chemical and physical properties of proteins are limited by the 20 canonical amino
acids. Genetic code manipulation allows for the incorporation of noncanonical amino acids …

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 …

Overview on multienzymatic cascades for the production of non-canonical α-amino acids

S Martínez-Rodríguez, JM Torres, P Sánchez… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The 22 genetically encoded amino acids (AAs) present in proteins (the 20 standard AAs
together with selenocysteine and pyrrolysine), are commonly referred as proteinogenic AAs …