Substrate channelling as an approach to cascade reactions

I Wheeldon, SD Minteer, S Banta, SC Barton… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Millions of years of evolution have produced biological systems capable of efficient one-pot
multi-step catalysis. The underlying mechanisms that facilitate these reaction processes are …

Engineering enzyme microenvironments for enhanced biocatalysis

L Lancaster, W Abdallah, S Banta… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein engineering provides a means to alter protein structure leading to new functions.
Much work has focused on the engineering of enzyme active sites to enhance catalytic …

Nanocaged enzymes with enhanced catalytic activity and increased stability against protease digestion

Z Zhao, J Fu, S Dhakal, A Johnson-Buck, M Liu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Cells routinely compartmentalize enzymes for enhanced efficiency of their metabolic
pathways. Here we report a general approach to construct DNA nanocaged enzymes for …

Self assembling nanoparticle enzyme clusters provide access to substrate channeling in multienzymatic cascades

JC Breger, JN Vranish, E Oh, MH Stewart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Access to efficient enzymatic channeling is desired for improving all manner of designer
biocatalysis. We demonstrate that enzymes constituting a multistep cascade can self …

[HTML][HTML] Proximity does not contribute to activity enhancement in the glucose oxidase–horseradish peroxidase cascade

Y Zhang, S Tsitkov, H Hess - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
A proximity effect has been invoked to explain the enhanced activity of enzyme cascades on
DNA scaffolds. Using the cascade reaction carried out by glucose oxidase and horseradish …

Artificial Multienzyme Scaffolds: Pursuing in Vitro Substrate Channeling with an Overview of Current Progress

GA Ellis, WP Klein, G Lasarte-Aragones, M Thakur… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial multienzyme scaffolds are being developed for in vitro cascaded biocatalytic activity
and, in particular, accessing substrate channeling. This review covers progress in this field …

Toward rational design of high-efficiency enzyme cascades

Y Zhang, H Hess - ACS Catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
The vision of assembling molecules in a manner similar to a factory, where parts pass from
workstation to workstation, is highly appealing. A key requirement to achieve such control …

Tailoring enzyme microenvironment: State-of-the-art strategy to fulfill the quest for efficient bio-catalysis

M Bilal, J Cui, HMN Iqbal - International journal of biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Enzymes as green industrial biocatalysts have become a powerful norm that offers several
advantages over traditional catalytic agents with regard to process efficiency, reusability …

Increasing enzyme cascade throughput by pH-engineering the microenvironment of individual enzymes

Y Zhang, Q Wang, H Hess - Acs Catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
The throughput of enzyme cascade reactions could be increased if the environmental
conditions could be optimized for each enzyme in the cascade individually. Here, we …

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 …