From protein film electrochemistry to nanoconfined enzyme cascades and the electrochemical leaf

FA Armstrong, B Cheng, RA Herold… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Protein film electrochemistry (PFE) has given unrivalled insight into the properties of redox
proteins and many electron-transferring enzymes, allowing investigations of otherwise ill …

Microenvironmental effects can masquerade as substrate channelling in cascade biocatalysis

W Abdallah, X Hong, S Banta, I Wheeldon - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural cascades frequently use spatial organization to introduce beneficial substrate
channeling mechanisms, a strategy that has been widely mimicked in many engineered …

Substrate channeling by a rationally designed fusion protein in a biocatalytic cascade

MJ Kummer, YS Lee, M Yuan, B Alkotaini, J Zhao… - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Substrate channeling, where an intermediate in a multistep reaction is directed toward a
reaction center rather than freely diffusing, offers several advantages when employed in …

Molecular mechanics studies of factors affecting overall rate in cascade reactions: Multi‐enzyme colocalization and environment

S Kaushik, TI Hung, CA Chang - Protein Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Millions of years of evolution have optimized many biosynthetic pathways by use of multi‐
step catalysis. In addition, multi‐step metabolic pathways are commonly found in and on …

Harnessing the structural and functional diversity of protein filaments as biomaterial scaffolds

NT Lam, JB McCluskey, DJ Glover - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
The natural ability of many proteins to polymerize into highly structured filaments has been
harnessed as scaffolds to align functional molecules in a diverse range of biomaterials …

Queueing theory-based perspective of the kinetics of “channeled” enzyme cascade reactions

S Tsitkov, T Pesenti, H Palacci, J Blanchet… - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Queueing approaches can capture the stochastic dynamics of chemical reactions and
provide a more accurate picture of the reaction kinetics than coupled differential equations in …

Wire-ready invertase-glucose dehydrogenase chimera as a strategic design for enzymatic chain reaction-driven electrocatalysis

H Lee, Y Bang, JS Sravan, B Kang, IS Chang - Electrochimica Acta, 2025 - Elsevier
The multienzymatic reaction in bioelectrocatalytic systems can offer promising pathways for
diverse biochemical synthesis or higher electricity generation. To achieve efficient enzymatic …

Charge transfer at biotic/abiotic interfaces in biological electrocatalysis

Y Liu, P Atanassov - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
In this opinion paper, we discuss the charge transfer at biotic/abiotic interfaces in man-made
and biological electrochemical systems. Specifically, we will first introduce the …

Markov-state transition path analysis of electrostatic channeling

Y Liu, DP Hickey, SD Minteer, A Dickson… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Electrostatic channeling is a naturally occurring approach to control the flux of charged
intermediates in catalytic cascades. Computational techniques have enabled quantitative …

Electrometabolic pathways: recent developments in bioelectrocatalytic cascades

DP Hickey, EM Gaffney, SD Minteer - Electrocatalysis, 2020 - Springer
In biological systems, the majority of chemistry occurs in enzymatic pathways. Pathways are
essentially cascades of protein catalysts used for catabolism or metabolism. However, in …