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Chalcogen bonding catalysis

Jieping Zhu

Catalysts play a major role in chemical synthesis, and catalysis is considered to be a green and economic process. Catalysis is dominated by covalent interactions between the catalyst and substrate. The design of non-covalent catalysts came into limelight ...

2024

Optimal enzyme utilization suggests that concentrations and thermodynamics determine binding mechanisms and enzyme saturations

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Daniel Robert Weilandt, Asli Sahin

One of the main challenges hampering the development of kinetic models is the lack of kinetic parameters for many enzymatic reactions. Here, the authors introduce a framework to explore the catalytically optimal operating conditions of any complex enzyme m ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Sirtuin 5 (SIRT5) is a protein lysine deacylase enzyme that regulates diverse biology by hydrolyzing epsilon-N-carboxyacyllysine posttranslational modifications in the cell. Inhibition of SIRT5 has been linked to potential treatment of several cancers but ...

2022

The more the merrier: how homo-oligomerization alters the interactome and function of ribonucleotide reductase

Yimon Aye

Stereotyped as a nexus of dNTP synthesis, the dual-subunit enzyme - ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) - is coming into view as a paradigm of oligomerization and moonlighting behavior. In the present issue of `omics', we discuss what makes the larger subunit o ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Enzyme annotation for orphan and novel reactions using knowledge of substrate reactive sites

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Noushin Hadadi, Marianne Seijo

Thousands of biochemical reactions with characterized activities are “orphan,” meaning they cannot be assigned to a specific enzyme, leaving gaps in metabolic pathways. Novel reactions predicted by pathway-generation tools also lack associated sequences, l ...

PNAS2019

Many biomacromols. are known to cluster in microdomains with specific subcellular localization. In the case of enzymes, this clustering greatly defines their biol. functions. Nitroreductases are enzymes capable of reducing nitro groups to amines, and play ...

2019

The evolution of multiple active site configurations in a designed enzyme

Ganna Gryn'ova, Dusan Petrovic

Developments in computational chemistry, bioinformatics, and laboratory evolution have facilitated the de novo design and catalytic optimization of enzymes. Besides creating useful catalysts, the generation and iterative improvement of designed enzymes can ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2018

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A system for monitoring biological processes in vivo is provided. The system comprises an implantable luciferase biosensor comprising luciferase in a biocompatible matrix and a caged luciferin probe. The caged luciferin probe can be administered to a livin ...

2018

Design of novel enzyme-catalyzed reactions linked to protein sequences for finding enzyme engineering targets

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Jasmin Maria Hafner, Homa Mohammadi Peyhani, Noushin Hadadi

A key challenge in metabolic engineering is to find and to improve biosynthetic pathways that lead to the cellular production of a given industrial, pharmaceutical or specialty chemical compound. In many cases, the enzymatic reactions required for bio-prod ...

2017

A Photoactivatable Probe for Super-Resolution Imaging of Enzymatic Activity in Live Cells

Pablo Rivera Fuentes, Zacharias Thiel, Nils Trapp

A dual-activatable, fluorogenic probe was developed to sense esterase activity with single-mol. resoln. Without enzymic preactivation, the diazoindanone-based probe has an electron-poor core and, upon irradn., undergoes Wolff rearrangement to give a ring-e ...

2017