Artificial Enzymes
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019) | Viewed by 432
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Artificial enzymes have been designed to mimic and transcend nature’s biocatalysts. Their main advantage over natural enzymes is their versatility, namely, the ability to tune them towards natural and non-natural reactivities; their large substrate scope; and their tolerance to various experimental conditions. In contrast to traditional homogeneous catalysts, their design is based on the creation of a suitable microenvironment for substrate recognition and transition state stabilisation, similar to the enzymes’ active sites. Alternatively, nanoparticle-based artificial enzymes (nanozymes) have recently been employed as enzyme mimics due to their similarity with proteins in size, shape, and surface charge, whilst also displaying a large number of surface-active sites.
Impressive advancements have been made since the beginning of the millennium towards the design and application of artificial enzymes. Nevertheless, the development of robust catalysts possessing enzyme-like features and the ability to catalyse any chemical transformation remains a much-desired goal in the scientific community. Additionally, the knowledge acquired from artificial enzyme development plays an important role in understanding fundamental questions of enzyme catalysis.
This Special Issue on “Artificial Enzymes” aims to showcase recent approaches taken by the community to solve challenges in all areas of research associated with artificial enzymes, from supramolecular catalysts to nanozymes, including their design, engineering, and application.
Prof. Dr. Anca Pordea
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Supramolecular catalysis
- Host-guest catalysis
- Artificial metalloenzymes
- Artificial DNAzymes
- De novo enzymes
- Nanozymes (nanoparticulate enzyme mimics)
- Metallopeptide catalysis
- Coiled coils
- Cyclodextrins
- Metal organic frameworks
- Calixarenes
- Substrate recognition
- Biomimetic catalysts
- Enzyme mimics.
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