Confining enzymes in porous organic frameworks: from synthetic strategy and characterization to healthcare applications

S Huang, G Chen, G Ouyang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Enzymes are a class of natural catalysts with high efficiency, specificity, and selectivity
unmatched by their synthetic counterparts and dictate a myriad of reactions that constitute …

DNA origami

S Dey, C Fan, KV Gothelf, J Li, C Lin, L Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biological materials are self-assembled with near-atomic precision in living cells, whereas
synthetic 3D structures generally lack such precision and controllability. Recently, DNA …

Hierarchically encapsulating enzymes with multi-shelled metal-organic frameworks for tandem biocatalytic reactions

T Man, C Xu, XY Liu, D Li, CK Tsung, H Pei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biocatalytic transformations in living organisms, such as multi-enzyme catalytic cascades,
proceed in different cellular membrane-compartmentalized organelles with high efficiency …

Biocatalytic cascades driven by enzymes encapsulated in metal–organic framework nanoparticles

WH Chen, M Vázquez-González, A Zoabi… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
Biocatalytic transformations in cells, such as enzyme cascades, involve complex networks
proceeding in spatially confined microenvironments. Here, inspired by nature, we …

DNA origami: scaffolds for creating higher order structures

F Hong, F Zhang, Y Liu, H Yan - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Chemistries for DNA nanotechnology

M Madsen, KV Gothelf - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The predictable nature of DNA interactions enables the programmable assembly of highly
advanced 2D and 3D DNA structures of nanoscale dimensions. The access to ever larger …

Recent progress in multienzymes co-immobilization and multienzyme system applications

S Ren, C Li, X Jiao, S Jia, Y Jiang, M Bilal… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Enzyme catalysis has been attracting increasing interest in the past twenty years.
Nevertheless, most reports concerning enzyme catalysis have been carried out using single …

DNA origami nanostructures can exhibit preferential renal uptake and alleviate acute kidney injury

D Jiang, Z Ge, HJ Im, CG England, D Ni… - Nature biomedical …, 2018 - nature.com
Patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently require kidney transplantation and
supportive therapies, such as rehydration and dialysis. Here, we show that radiolabelled …

Enzymatic reactions in confined environments

A Küchler, M Yoshimoto, S Luginbühl, F Mavelli… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Within each biological cell, surface-and volume-confined enzymes control a highly complex
network of chemical reactions. These reactions are efficient, timely, and spatially defined …

Solvent-assisted self-assembly of a metal–organic framework based biocatalyst for cascade reaction driven photodynamic therapy

L He, Q Ni, J Mu, W Fan, L Liu, Z Wang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biocatalytic reactions in living cells involve complex transformations in the spatially confined
microenvironments. Inspired by biological transformation processes, we demonstrate …