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Chemoenzymatic Cascade Synthesis of Metal-Chelating

Sophie H Young, James S Andon, Jooyeon Lim, Mareena C Franke, Daniel J Weix, Tina Wang, Andrew R Buller

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Article in ChemCatChem, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Promiscuity-Guided Enzyme Evolution via Substrate Multiplexed Screening.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sophie H YoungDepartment of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University, Ave, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
James S AndonDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 443 Babcock, Dr, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Jooyeon LimDepartment of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University, Ave, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Mareena C FrankeDepartment of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University, Ave, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Daniel J WeixDepartment of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University, Ave, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Tina WangDepartment of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University, Ave, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Andrew R BullerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University, Ave, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Funding

BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008349 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI FOX, BRIAN G · 1989 to 2019
$22.5M
Biotechnology Training ProgramT32GM135066 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI SCOTT M. COYLE, BRIAN G FOX · 2020 to 2026
$7.0M
Engineering in vivo biomolecular synthesis with non-standard building blocksDP2GM137417 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BULLER, ANDREW · 2019 to 2019
$2.2M
Engineering promiscuous enzymes for synthesis of biological building blocksR35GM153276 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI BULLER, ANDREW · 2024 to 2025
$800k
NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM137417NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM153276NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008349NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM135066
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metal-chelating noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) are uniquely functional building blocks for proteins, peptide catalysts, and small molecule sensors. However, catalytic asymmetric approaches to synthesizing these molecules are hindered by their functional group variability and intrinsic propensity to ligate metals. In particular, bipyridyl-L-alanine (BpyAla) is a highly sought ncAA, but its complex, inefficient syntheses have limited utility. Here, we develop a chemoenzymatic approach to efficiently construct BpyAla. Three enzymes that can be produced in high titer together react to convert Gly and an aldehyde into the corresponding

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BiocatalysisGenetic code expansionNoncanonical amino acidPyridoxal phosphate

Identifiers

PMID40761323
PMCPMC12320908

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