Heavy metal removal by bioaccumulation using genetically engineered microorganisms

P Diep, R Mahadevan, AF Yakunin - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Wastewater effluents from mines and metal refineries are often contaminated with heavy
metal ions, so they pose hazards to human and environmental health. Conventional …

Rational design of metalloenzymes: From single to multiple active sites

YW Lin - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Artificial metalloenzymes combine the advantages of both natural enzymes and chemically
synthesized models, which have achieved significant progress in the last decade. This …

The effect of oxygenated fuel properties on diesel spray combustion and soot formation

W Park, S Park, RD Reitz, E Kurtz - Combustion and Flame, 2017 - Elsevier
Diesel engines have advantages due to their potential for high fuel conversion efficiency.
However, it is necessary to reduce pollutant emissions, particularly NOx and soot to meet …

Intracellular reactions promoted by bis (histidine) miniproteins stapled using palladium (II) complexes

S Learte‐Aymamí, C Vidal… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The generation of catalytically active metalloproteins inside living mammalian cells is a
major research challenge at the interface between catalysis and cell biology. Herein we …

Intracellular chemistry: integrating molecular inorganic catalysts with living systems

AH Ngo, S Bose, LH Do - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This concept article focuses on the rapid growth of intracellular chemistry dedicated to the
integration of small‐molecule metal catalysts with living cells and organisms. Although …

Control of heme coordination and catalytic activity by conformational changes in peptide–amphiphile assemblies

LA Solomon, JB Kronenberg… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Self-assembling peptide materials have gained significant attention, due to well-
demonstrated applications, but they are functionally underutilized. To advance their utility …

Recent advances in enzyme promiscuity

RD Gupta - Sustainable Chemical Processes, 2016 - Springer
Enzyme promiscuity is defined as the capability of an enzyme to catalyze a reaction other
than the reaction for which it has been specialized. Although, enzyme is known for its …

Proteins as diverse, efficient, and evolvable scaffolds for artificial metalloenzymes

WJ Jeong, J Yu, WJ Song - Chemical Communications, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
By combining synthetic catalysts and biochemical tools, numerous artificial metalloenzymes
have been designed to exhibit high catalytic activity and selectivity in diverse chemical …

A rationally designed myoglobin exhibits a catalytic dehalogenation efficiency more than 1000-fold that of a native dehaloperoxidase

LL Yin, H Yuan, C Liu, B He, SQ Gao, GB Wen… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The design of functional metalloenzymes is attractive, but few designs can exceed the
catalytic rate of native enzymes. In order to create an effective artificial dehaloperoxidase …

A computational approach to understand the role of metals and axial ligands in artificial heme enzyme catalyzed C–H insertion

R Balhara, R Chatterjee, G Jindal - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Engineered heme enzymes such as myoglobin and cytochrome P450s metalloproteins are
gaining widespread importance due to their efficiency in catalyzing non-natural reactions. In …