Recent trends in biocatalysis

D Yi, T Bayer, CPS Badenhorst, S Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has undergone revolutionary progress in the past century. Benefited by the
integration of multidisciplinary technologies, natural enzymatic reactions are constantly …

Biocatalysis: enzymatic synthesis for industrial applications

S Wu, R Snajdrova, JC Moore… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biocatalysis has found numerous applications in various fields as an alternative to chemical
catalysis. The use of enzymes in organic synthesis, especially to make chiral compounds for …

[HTML][HTML] Biosynthetic potential of the global ocean microbiome

L Paoli, HJ Ruscheweyh, CC Forneris, F Hubrich… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Natural microbial communities are phylogenetically and metabolically diverse. In addition to
underexplored organismal groups, this diversity encompasses a rich discovery potential for …

Fatty acids and their derivatives as renewable platform molecules for the chemical industry

U Biermann, UT Bornscheuer… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Oils and fats of vegetable and animal origin remain an important renewable feedstock for the
chemical industry. Their industrial use has increased during the last 10 years from 31 to 51 …

Extending the application of biocatalysis to meet the challenges of drug development

PN Devine, RM Howard, R Kumar… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
The pharmaceutical industry, driven by an increasing need to deliver new and more effective
medicines to patients, is increasingly turning to the use of engineered biocatalysts for both …

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 …

A new-to-nature carboxylation module to improve natural and synthetic CO2 fixation

M Scheffen, DG Marchal, T Beneyton, SK Schuller… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
The capture of CO2 by carboxylases is key to sustainable biocatalysis and a carbon-neutral
bio-economy, yet currently limited to few naturally existing enzymes. Here, we developed …

Multienzyme Cascade Reactions Status and Recent Advances

JM Sperl, V Sieber - Acs Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cascade reactions catalyzed by multienzymatic systems have strongly moved into the focus
of researchers in the field of biocatalysis because of their unique potential for the …

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 …