Industrial applications of enzyme biocatalysis: Current status and future aspects

JM Choi, SS Han, HS Kim - Biotechnology advances, 2015 - Elsevier
Enzymes are the most proficient catalysts, offering much more competitive processes
compared to chemical catalysts. The number of industrial applications for enzymes has …

Biocatalysis in organic chemistry and biotechnology: past, present, and future

MT Reetz - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013 - ACS Publications
Enzymes as catalysts in synthetic organic chemistry gained importance in the latter half of
the 20th century, but nevertheless suffered from two major limitations. First, many enzymes …

Directed evolution drives the next generation of biocatalysts

NJ Turner - Nature chemical biology, 2009 - nature.com
Enzymes are increasingly being used as biocatalysts in the generation of products that have
until now been derived using traditional chemical processes. Such products range from …

Laboratory evolution of stereoselective enzymes: a prolific source of catalysts for asymmetric reactions

MT Reetz - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Asymmetric catalysis plays a key role in modern synthetic organic chemistry, with synthetic
catalysts and enzymes being the two available options. During the latter part of the last …

A retrosynthesis approach for biocatalysis in organic synthesis

ROMA de Souza, LSM Miranda… - … –A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
For the planning of an organic synthesis route, the disconnection approach guided by
retrosynthetic analysis of possible intermediates and the chemical reactions involved, back …

How mutational epistasis impairs predictability in protein evolution and design

CM Miton, N Tokuriki - Protein Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There has been much debate about the extent to which mutational epistasis, that is, the
dependence of the outcome of a mutation on the genetic background, constrains …

Biocatalytic reductions and chemical versatility of the old yellow enzyme family of flavoprotein oxidoreductases

HS Toogood, JM Gardiner, NS Scrutton - ChemCatChem, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The old yellow enzyme (OYE) family is a large group of flavin‐dependent redox biocatalysts
with major applications in the industrial reduction of activated alkenes. These enzymes have …

Can machine learning revolutionize directed evolution of selective enzymes?

G Li, Y Dong, MT Reetz - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Machine learning as a form of artificial intelligence consists of algorithms and
statistical models for improving computer performance for different tasks. Training data are …

A machine learning approach for reliable prediction of amino acid interactions and its application in the directed evolution of enantioselective enzymes

F Cadet, N Fontaine, G Li, J Sanchis… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Directed evolution is an important research activity in synthetic biology and biotechnology.
Numerous reports describe the application of tedious mutation/screening cycles for the …

Structural insight into enantioselective inversion of an alcohol dehydrogenase reveals a “polar gate” in stereorecognition of diaryl ketones

J Zhou, Y Wang, G Xu, L Wu, R Han… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Diaryl ketones are important building blocks for synthesizing pharmaceuticals and are
generally regarded as “difficult-to-reduce” ketones due to the large steric hindrance of their …