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Better than Nature: Nicotinamide Biomimetics That Outperform Natural Coenzymes.


ABSTRACT: The search for affordable, green biocatalytic processes is a challenge for chemicals manufacture. Redox biotransformations are potentially attractive, but they rely on unstable and expensive nicotinamide coenzymes that have prevented their widespread exploitation. Stoichiometric use of natural coenzymes is not viable economically, and the instability of these molecules hinders catalytic processes that employ coenzyme recycling. Here, we investigate the efficiency of man-made synthetic biomimetics of the natural coenzymes NAD(P)H in redox biocatalysis. Extensive studies with a range of oxidoreductases belonging to the "ene" reductase family show that these biomimetics are excellent analogues of the natural coenzymes, revealed also in crystal structures of the ene reductase XenA with selected biomimetics. In selected cases, these biomimetics outperform the natural coenzymes. "Better-than-Nature" biomimetics should find widespread application in fine and specialty chemicals production by harnessing the power of high stereo-, regio-, and chemoselective redox biocatalysts and enabling reactions under mild conditions at low cost.

SUBMITTER: Knaus T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4731831 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Better than Nature: Nicotinamide Biomimetics That Outperform Natural Coenzymes.

Knaus Tanja T   Paul Caroline E CE   Levy Colin W CW   de Vries Simon S   Mutti Francesco G FG   Hollmann Frank F   Scrutton Nigel S NS  

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20160113 3


The search for affordable, green biocatalytic processes is a challenge for chemicals manufacture. Redox biotransformations are potentially attractive, but they rely on unstable and expensive nicotinamide coenzymes that have prevented their widespread exploitation. Stoichiometric use of natural coenzymes is not viable economically, and the instability of these molecules hinders catalytic processes that employ coenzyme recycling. Here, we investigate the efficiency of man-made synthetic biomimetic  ...[more]

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