Anca Pordea
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Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 2015, 25:124–132
This review comes from a themed issue on Biocatalysis and biotransformation
Edited by Thomas R Ward and Valentin Köhler
Available online 17th January 2015
1367-5931/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367593114001999
This review presents recent examples of metal-binding
promiscuity in protein scaffolds and highlights the effect of
metal variation on catalytic functionality. Naturally evolved
binding sites, as well as unnatural amino acids and cofactors
can bind a diverse range of metals, including non-biological
transition elements. Computational screening and rational
design have been successfully used to create promiscuous
binding-sites. Incorporation of non-native metals into proteins
expands the catalytic range of transformations catalysed by
enzymes and enhances their potential for application in
chemicals synthesis.
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