Synthetic biology: bottom-up assembly of molecular systems

S Hirschi, TR Ward, WP Meier, DJ Müller… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
The bottom-up assembly of biological and chemical components opens exciting
opportunities to engineer artificial vesicular systems for applications with previously unmet …

The time and place for nature in drug discovery

RJ Young, SL Flitsch, M Grigalunas, PD Leeson… - Jacs Au, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
The case for a renewed focus on Nature in drug discovery is reviewed; not in terms of
natural product screening, but how and why biomimetic molecules, especially those …

Expanding the synthetic toolbox through metal–enzyme cascade reactions

S González-Granda, J Albarrán-Velo… - Chemical …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
The combination of metal-, photo-, enzyme-, and/or organocatalysis provides multiple
synthetic solutions, especially when the creation of chiral centers is involved. Historically …

Biomimetic metallic nanostructures for biomedical applications, catalysis, and beyond

MT Yaraki, S Zahed Nasab, I Zare… - Industrial & …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Nature has inspired scientists to develop green and sustainable nanomaterials with
biomimetic functions. Particularly, biomimetic metallic nanostructures (biometal NPs) with …

Hydrolase mimic via second coordination sphere engineering in metal-organic frameworks for environmental remediation

X Yuan, X Wu, J **ong, B Yan, R Gao, S Liu… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Enzymes achieve high catalytic activity with their elaborate arrangements of amino acid
residues in confined optimized spaces. Nevertheless, when exposed to complicated …

Recent advances in biocatalysis with chemical modification and expanded amino acid alphabet

AD Pagar, MD Patil, DT Flood, TH Yoo… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
The two main strategies for enzyme engineering, directed evolution and rational design,
have found widespread applications in improving the intrinsic activities of proteins. Although …

Noncanonical Amino Acids: Bringing New-to-Nature Functionalities to Biocatalysis

B Brouwer, F Della-Felice, JH Illies… - Chemical …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis has become an important component of modern organic chemistry, presenting
an efficient and environmentally friendly approach to synthetic transformations. Advances in …

Nanoscale chemical reaction exploration with a quantum magnifying glass

KS Csizi, M Steiner, M Reiher - Nature Communications, 2024‏ - nature.com
Nanoscopic systems exhibit diverse molecular substructures by which they facilitate specific
functions. Theoretical models of them, which aim at describing, understanding, and …

Learning from protein engineering by deconvolution of multi‐mutational variants

F Hollmann, J Sanchis, MT Reetz - … Chemie International Edition, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
This review analyzes a development in biochemistry, enzymology and biotechnology that
originally came as a surprise. Following the establishment of directed evolution of …

Quaternary charge-transfer complex enables photoenzymatic intermolecular hydroalkylation of olefins

CG Page, SJ Cooper, JS DeHovitz… - Journal of the …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Intermolecular C–C bond-forming reactions are underdeveloped transformations in the field
of biocatalysis. Here we report a photoenzymatic intermolecular hydroalkylation of olefins …