Enzymes as working or inspirational electrocatalysts for fuel cells and electrolysis

JA Cracknell, KA Vincent, FA Armstrong - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
The concept of a fuel cell dates back to 1839, from independent studies by Grove and
Schoenbein. 1, 2 Like a battery, a fuel cell is a device for obtaining electrical energy directly …

Biocatalytic oxidation of fatty alcohols into aldehydes for the flavors and fragrances industry

D Ribeaucourt, B Bissaro, F Lambert, M Lafond… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
From Egyptian mummies to the Chanel n° 5 perfume, fatty aldehydes have long been used
and keep impacting our senses in a wide range of foods, beverages and perfumes. Natural …

Enhanced active-site electric field accelerates enzyme catalysis

C Zheng, Z Ji, II Mathews, SG Boxer - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The design and improvement of enzymes based on physical principles remain challenging.
Here we demonstrate that the principle of electrostatic catalysis can be leveraged to …

[图书][B] Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry-Two-Volume Set (Print)

JL Atwood - 2013 - books.google.com
The two-volume Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry offers authoritative, centralized
information on a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. User-friendly and high-quality …

Occurrence, conformational features and amino acid propensities for the π-helix

MN Fodje, S Al-Karadaghi - Protein engineering, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The most abundant helix type in proteins is the α-helix, accounting for about 31% of amino
acid secondary structure states, while the 310-helix accounts for about 4%. The π-helix …

Redox self-sufficient biocatalyst network for the amination of primary alcohols.

JH Sattler, M Fuchs, K Tauber, FG Mutti… - … (International ed. in …, 2012 - europepmc.org
Driving the machinery: A biocatalytic redox-neutral cascade for the preparation of terminal
primary amines from primary alcohols at the expense of ammonia has been established in a …

Crystal Structures of the Binary and Ternary Complexes of 7α-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli,

N Tanaka, T Nonaka, T Tanabe, T Yoshimoto… - Biochemistry, 1996 - ACS Publications
7α-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (7α-HSDH; 1 EC 1.1. 1.159) is an NAD+-dependent
oxidoreductase belonging to the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) 1 family. It …

The coordination of the catalytic zinc ion in alcohol dehydrogenase studied by combined quantum-chemical and molecular mechanics calculations

U Ryde - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 1996 - Springer
The coordination number of the catalytic zinc ion in alcohol dehydrogenase has been
studied by integrated ab initio quantum-chemical and molecular mechanics geometry …

A link between protein structure and enzyme catalyzed hydrogen tunneling

BJ Bahnson, TD Colby, JK Chin… - Proceedings of the …, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
We present evidence that the size of an active site side chain may modulate the degree of
hydrogen tunneling in an enzyme-catalyzed reaction. Primary and secondary k H/k T and k …

A structurally conserved water molecule in Rossmann dinucleotide‐binding domains

CA Bottoms, PE Smith, JJ Tanner - Protein Science, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
A computational comparison of 102 high‐resolution (≤ 1.90 Å) enzyme‐dinucleotide (NAD,
NADP, FAD) complexes was performed to investigate the role of solvent in dinucleotide …