Recent advances in molecular biology have extended our understanding of the metabolic
processes related to microbial transformation of petroleum hydrocarbons. The physiological …

During the recent past years, tremendous efforts have been made to establish
enantioselective routes for the preparation of enantiomerically pure compounds due to their …

Rieske non-heme iron oxygenases (RO) catalyze stereo-and regiospecific reactions.
Recently, an explosion of structural information on this class of enzymes has occurred in the …

Indigo is one of the oldest textile dyes and was originally prepared from plant material.
Nowadays, indigo is chemically synthesized at a large scale to satisfy the demand for dyeing …

Amine dehydrogenases (AmDHs) catalyse the conversion of ketones into enantiomerically
pure amines at the sole expense of ammonia and hydride source. Guided by structural …

Microbial enzymes have many known applications as biocatalysts. However, only a few of
them are currently employed for biocatalysis even though an annotated collection of more …

The range of available arene dihydroxylating dioxygenase enzymes, their structure and
mechanism, and recent examples of the application of arene cis-dihydrodiol bioproducts as …

Enzymes that depend on sophisticated electron transfer via ferredoxins (Fds) exhibit
outstanding catalytic capabilities, but despite decades of research, many of them are still not …

The metabolism of organic molecules by living organisms is of fundamental interest to
biologists, microbiologists, and biochemists. The primary avenue of metabolism in most …

In most cases, enantiomers of chiral compounds behave differently in biochemical
processes. Therefore, the effects and the environmental fate of the enantiomers of chiral …