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 …

From random to rational: improving enzyme design through electric fields, second coordination sphere interactions, and conformational dynamics

SS Chaturvedi, D Bím, CZ Christov… - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes are versatile and efficient biological catalysts that drive numerous cellular
processes, motivating the development of enzyme design approaches to tailor catalysts for …

Hydrogel oxygen reservoirs increase functional integration of neural stem cell grafts by meeting metabolic demands

Y Wang, ER Zoneff, JW Thomas, N Hong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Injectable biomimetic hydrogels have great potential for use in regenerative medicine as
cellular delivery vectors. However, they can suffer from issues relating to hypoxia, including …

Engineering an Oxygen‐Binding Protein for Photocatalytic CO2 Reductions in Water

Y Deng, S Dwaraknath, WO Ouyang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While native CO2‐reducing enzymes display remarkable catalytic efficiency and product
selectivity, few artificial biocatalysts have been engineered to allow understanding how the …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution, folding, and design of TIM barrels and related proteins

S Romero-Romero, S Kordes, F Michel… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•In-depth sequence analysis reveals that the protein fold universe is more
evolutionarily connected than previously assumed.•Short ancestral fragments are observed …

The role of myoglobin in the evolution of mammalian diving capacity–The August Krogh principle applied in molecular and evolutionary physiology

M Berenbrink - Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A …, 2021 - Elsevier
After the Devonian tetrapod land invasion, groups of terrestrial air-breathing and
endothermic mammals repeatedly went back to live in the sea, relying on air intake at the …

Recreated ancestral opsin associated with marine to freshwater croaker invasion reveals kinetic and spectral adaptation

A Van Nynatten, GM Castiglione… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Rhodopsin, the light-sensitive visual pigment expressed in rod photoreceptors, is
specialized for vision in dim-light environments. Aquatic environments are particularly …

Enzymatic CO2 reduction catalyzed by natural and artificial Metalloenzymes

Y Deng, JX Wang, B Ghosh, Y Lu - Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The continuously increasing level of atmospheric CO 2 in the atmosphere has led to global
warming. Converting CO 2 into other carbon compounds could mitigate its atmospheric …

[PDF][PDF] Reduction of Paraoxonase Expression Followed by Inactivation across Independent Semiaquatic Mammals Suggests Stepwise Path to Pseudogenization

AM Graham, JM Jamison, M Bustos… - Molecular biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Convergent adaptation to the same environment by multiple lineages frequently involves
rapid evolutionary change at the same genes, implicating these genes as important for …

Deiminated proteins and extracellular vesicles-novel serum biomarkers in whales and orca

B Magnadóttir, P Uysal-Onganer, I Kraev… - … and Physiology Part D …, 2020 - Elsevier
Peptidylarginine deiminases (PADs) are a family of phylogenetically conserved calcium-
dependent enzymes which cause post-translational protein deimination. This can result in …