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- Title
Organizing Multi-Enzyme Systems into Programmable Materials for Biocatalysis.
- Authors
Seo, Min-Ju; Schmidt-Dannert, Claudia
- Abstract
Significant advances in enzyme discovery, protein and reaction engineering have transformed biocatalysis into a viable technology for the industrial scale manufacturing of chemicals. Multi-enzyme catalysis has emerged as a new frontier for the synthesis of complex chemicals. However, the in vitro operation of multiple enzymes simultaneously in one vessel poses challenges that require new strategies for increasing the operational performance of enzymatic cascade reactions. Chief among those strategies is enzyme co-immobilization. This review will explore how advances in synthetic biology and protein engineering have led to bioinspired co-localization strategies for the scaffolding and compartmentalization of enzymes. Emphasis will be placed on genetically encoded co-localization mechanisms as platforms for future autonomously self-organizing biocatalytic systems. Such genetically programmable systems could be produced by cell factories or emerging cell-free systems. Challenges and opportunities towards self-assembling, multifunctional biocatalytic materials will be discussed.
- Subjects
MULTIENZYME complexes; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC biology; SELF-organizing systems; SYNTHETIC proteins
- Publication
Catalysts (2073-4344), 2021, Vol 11, Issue 4, p409
- ISSN
2073-4344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/catal11040409