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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Artificial Small Molecules as Cofactors and Biomacromolecular Building Blocks in Synthetic Biology: Design, Synthesis, Applications, and Challenges.

Fenghua Liu, Lingling He, Sheng Dong, Jinsong Xuan, Qiu Cui, Yingang Feng

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Exploring PadR Proteins for Artificial Enzyme Design.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Fenghua LiuCAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao 266101, China.ORCID 0009-0004-8831-5759
Lingling HeDepartment of Bioscience and Bioengineering, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China.ORCID 0009-0009-8626-3998
Sheng DongCAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao 266101, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0452-5221
Jinsong XuanDepartment of Bioscience and Bioengineering, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5296-5328
Qiu CuiCAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao 266101, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4669-424X
Yingang FengCAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao 266101, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0879-1316

Funding

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities FRF-DF-20-09Major Education and Teaching Reform Research Project, USTB JG2021ZD01National Natural Science Foundation of China 32070125, 32170051, 32171203QIBEBT QIBEBT/SEI/QNESL S202302Shandong Energy Institute SEI I202114, SEI I202106, SEI S202106Training Program for Young Teaching Backbone Talents, USTB 2302020JXGGRC-005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enzymes are essential catalysts for various chemical reactions in biological systems and often rely on metal ions or cofactors to stabilize their structure or perform functions. Improving enzyme performance has always been an important direction of protein engineering. In recent years, various artificial small molecules have been successfully used in enzyme engineering. The types of enzymatic reactions and metabolic pathways in cells can be expanded by the incorporation of these artificial small molecules either as cofactors or as building blocks of proteins and nucleic acids, which greatly promotes the development and application of biotechnology. In this review, we summarized research on artificial small molecules including biological metal cluster mimics, coenzyme analogs (mNADs), designer cofactors, non-natural nucleotides (XNAs), and non-natural amino acids (nnAAs), focusing on their design, synthesis, and applications as well as the current challenges in synthetic biology.

Indexed as

Protein EngineeringSynthetic BiologyAmino AcidsBiotechnologyProteinsAmino AcidsProteinsartificial small moleculesbiological metal cluster mimicscoenzyme analogsdesigner cofactorsnon-natural amino acidsnon-natural nucleotidessynthetic biology

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PMID37570818
PMCPMC10421094

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