Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

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

  • Joyce C. Breger,
  • James N. Vranish,
  • Eunkeu Oh,
  • Michael H. Stewart,
  • Kimihiro Susumu,
  • Guillermo Lasarte-Aragonés,
  • Gregory A. Ellis,
  • Scott A. Walper,
  • Sebastián A. Díaz,
  • Shelby L. Hooe,
  • William P. Klein,
  • Meghna Thakur,
  • Mario G. Ancona,
  • Igor L. Medintz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37255-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Channeling between enzymes is a uniquely nanoscale phenomenon that can improve multienzymatic reaction rates. Here, the authors demonstrate that multistep enzyme cascades can self-assemble with nanoparticles into nanoclusters that access channeling and improve the underlying catalytic flux by several fold.