Photobiocatalytic strategies for organic synthesis

MA Emmanuel, SG Bender, C Bilodeau… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biocatalysis has revolutionized chemical synthesis, providing sustainable methods for
preparing various organic molecules. In enzyme-mediated organic synthesis, most reactions …

Second and outer coordination sphere effects in nitrogenase, hydrogenase, formate dehydrogenase, and CO dehydrogenase

ST Stripp, BR Duffus, V Fourmond, C Léger… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Gases like H2, N2, CO2, and CO are increasingly recognized as critical feedstock in “green”
energy conversion and as sources of nitrogen and carbon for the agricultural and chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Conversion of Escherichia coli to generate all biomass carbon from CO2

S Gleizer, R Ben-Nissan, YM Bar-On, N Antonovsky… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The living world is largely divided into autotrophs that convert CO 2 into biomass and
heterotrophs that consume organic compounds. In spite of widespread interest in renewable …

based microfluidic devices: Emerging themes and applications

Y Yang, E Noviana, MP Nguyen, BJ Geiss… - Analytical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Since the first microfluidic paper-based analytical device (μPAD) was introduced by
Whitesides and co-workers in 2007, 1 the field has continued to develop at an exponential …

Biocatalytic reduction reactions from a chemist's perspective

F Hollmann, DJ Opperman… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reductions play a key role in organic synthesis, producing chiral products with new
functionalities. Enzymes can catalyse such reactions with exquisite stereo‐, regio‐and …

Enzymatic carbon dioxide to formate: mechanisms, challenges and opportunities

H Chen, Y Huang, C Sha, JM Moradian… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2) gas into soluble formate is one of the most promising
carbon neutralization strategies since it facilitates simultaneous fixation of carbon dioxide …

[HTML][HTML] Selenium—more than just a fortuitous sulfur substitute in redox biology

LB Maia, BK Maiti, I Moura, JJG Moura - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Living organisms use selenium mainly in the form of selenocysteine in the active site of
oxidoreductases. Here, selenium's unique chemistry is believed to modulate the reaction …

Metabolic aspects of aerobic obligate methanotrophy⋆

YA Trotsenko, JC Murrell - Advances in applied microbiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the metabolic aspects of aerobic obligate
methanotrophy. Aerobic methanotrophs are a unique group of gram-negative bacteria that …

Development of an amine dehydrogenase for synthesis of chiral amines.

MJ Abrahamson, E Vázquez-Figueroa… - … (International ed. in …, 2012 - europepmc.org
A leucine dehydrogenase has been successfully altered through several rounds of protein
engineering to an enantioselective amine dehydrogenase. Instead of the wild-type α-keto …

[HTML][HTML] Origin, impact and control of lignocellulosic inhibitors in bioethanol production—A review

N Sjulander, T Kikas - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass is still struggling with many obstacles.
One of them is lignocellulosic inhibitors. The aim of this review is to discuss the most known …