The evolving nature of biocatalysis in pharmaceutical research and development

SP France, RD Lewis, CA Martinez - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis is a highly valued enabling technology for pharmaceutical research and
development as it can unlock synthetic routes to complex chiral motifs with unparalleled …

Artificial biocatalytic linear cascades for preparation of organic molecules

JH Schrittwieser, S Velikogne, M Hall… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The review compiles artificial cascades involving enzymes with a focus on the last 10 years.
A cascade is defined as the combination of at least two reaction steps in a single reaction …

Round, round we go–strategies for enzymatic cofactor regeneration

S Mordhorst, JN Andexer - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the beginning of 2020 Enzymes depending on cofactors are essential in
many biosynthetic pathways of natural products. They are often involved in key steps …

Methyltransferases: functions and applications

E Abdelraheem, B Thair, RF Varela… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this review the current state‐of‐the‐art of S‐adenosylmethionine (SAM)‐dependent
methyltransferases and SAM are evaluated. Their structural classification and diversity is …

ATP‐responsive and ATP‐fueled self‐assembling systems and materials

J Deng, A Walther - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a central metabolite that plays an indispensable role in
various cellular processes, from energy supply to cell‐to‐cell signaling. Nature has …

Biocatalysis in drug discovery and development

A Fryszkowska, PN Devine - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Enzyme catalysis, enabled by advances in protein engineering and directed evolution, is
beginning to transform chemical synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry. This review …

Synthetic biochemistry: the bio-inspired cell-free approach to commodity chemical production

JU Bowie, S Sherkhanov, TP Korman, MA Valliere… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Metabolic engineering efforts that harness living organisms to produce natural products and
other useful chemicals face inherent difficulties because the maintenance of life processes …

Catalytic Alkylation Using a Cyclic S‐Adenosylmethionine Regeneration System

S Mordhorst, J Siegrist, M Müller… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
S‐Adenosylmethionine‐dependent methyltransferases are versatile tools for the specific
alkylation of many compounds, such as pharmaceuticals, but their biocatalytic application is …

Enzyme evolution for industrial biocatalytic cascades

J Nazor, J Liu, G Huisman - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•In vitro, multi-enzyme cascades of industrial relevance are reviewed.•Enzyme
evolution allows combining multiple enzymatic steps in a single reaction step within a single …

Leloir glycosyltransferases in applied biocatalysis: A multidisciplinary approach

L Mestrom, M Przypis, D Kowalczykiewicz… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Enzymes are nature's catalyst of choice for the highly selective and efficient coupling of
carbohydrates. Enzymatic sugar coupling is a competitive technology for industrial …