Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Hydrolase–like catalysis and structural resolution of natural products by a metal–organic framework

  • Marta Mon,
  • Rosaria Bruno,
  • Sergio Sanz-Navarro,
  • Cristina Negro,
  • Jesús Ferrando-Soria,
  • Lucia Bartella,
  • Leonardo Di Donna,
  • Mario Prejanò,
  • Tiziana Marino,
  • Antonio Leyva-Pérez,
  • Donatella Armentano,
  • Emilio Pardo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16699-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Elucidation of the chemical structure of natural products constitutes one of the main challenges in Natural Sciences. Here, the authors show that an amino acid-based metal–organic framework exhibits hydrolase-like catalytic activity and crystallographic determination of the resulting products.