Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Construction and in vivo assembly of a catalytically proficient and hyperthermostable de novo enzyme

  • Daniel W. Watkins,
  • Jonathan M. X. Jenkins,
  • Katie J. Grayson,
  • Nicola Wood,
  • Jack W. Steventon,
  • Kristian K. Le Vay,
  • Matthew I. Goodwin,
  • Anna S. Mullen,
  • Henry J. Bailey,
  • Matthew P. Crump,
  • Fraser MacMillan,
  • Adrian J. Mulholland,
  • Gus Cameron,
  • Richard B. Sessions,
  • Stephen Mann,
  • J. L. Ross Anderson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00541-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Catalytic mechanisms of enzymes are well understood, but achieving diverse reaction chemistries in re-engineered proteins can be difficult. Here the authors show a highly efficient and thermostable artificial enzyme that catalyzes a diverse array of substrate oxidations coupled to the reduction of H2O2.