Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Modular enzyme assembly for enhanced cascade biocatalysis and metabolic flux

  • Wei Kang,
  • Tian Ma,
  • Min Liu,
  • Jiale Qu,
  • Zhenjun Liu,
  • Huawei Zhang,
  • Bin Shi,
  • Shuai Fu,
  • Juncai Ma,
  • Louis Tung Faat Lai,
  • Sicong He,
  • Jianan Qu,
  • Shannon Wing-Ngor Au,
  • Byung Ho Kang,
  • Wilson Chun Yu Lau,
  • Zixin Deng,
  • Jiang Xia,
  • Tiangang Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12247-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Metabolic enzymes often form supramolecular complexes to improve product yield. Here the authors use short peptide tags to create scaffold-free assemblies and synthetic metabolic nodes.