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SUBMITTER: Santi N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7287710 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20200525 10
In this report, the streptavidin-biotin technology was applied to enable organocatalytic aldol addition. By attaching pyrrolidine to the valeric motif of biotin and introducing it to streptavidin (Sav), a protein-based organocatalytic system was created, and the aldol addition of acetone with <i>p</i>-nitrobenzaldehyde was tested. The conversion of substrate to product can be as high as 93%. Although the observed enantioselectivity was only moderate (33:67 er), further protein engineering effort ...[more]