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Peroxygenases en route to becoming dream catalysts. What are the opportunities and challenges

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Peroxygenases are promising catalysts for preparative oxyfunctionalization chemistry as they combine the versatility of P450 monooxygenase with simplicity of cofactor-independent enzymes.
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This article is published in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology.The article was published on 2017-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 178 citations till now.

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Accessing Chemo- and Regioselective Benzylic and Aromatic Oxidations by Protein Engineering of an Unspecific Peroxygenase

TL;DR: The proposed evolutionary protocol and rationalization of the enhanced activities and selectivities acquired by MthUPO variants represent a step forward toward the use and implementation of UPOs in biocatalytic synthetic pathways of industrial interest.
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Surfing the wave of oxyfunctionalization chemistry by engineering fungal unspecific peroxygenases.

TL;DR: A review of the most recent advances in UPO engineering, both of the long and short UPO families, while discussing the future prospects in this fast-moving field of research can be found in this article .
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Novel Routes in Transformation of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Furan Platform Chemicals: From Pretreatment to Enzyme Catalysis

TL;DR: The present review provides an overview of the main processes that have been reported throughout the literature for the production of bio-based monomers from lignocellulose, focusing on physicochemical procedures and biocatalysis.
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A comprehensive insight into aldehyde deformylation: mechanistic implications from biology and chemistry

TL;DR: This review paper provides an overview of the various aldehyde deformylation reactions in organic chemistry, biology and biomimetic model systems, and shows a broad range of different chemical reaction mechanisms for this process.
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Engineering the third wave of biocatalysis

TL;DR: Applications of protein-engineered biocatalysts ranging from commodity chemicals to advanced pharmaceutical intermediates that use enzyme catalysis as a key step are discussed.
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Glucose oxidase--an overview.

TL;DR: Various purification techniques for higher recovery of glucose oxidase are described here, and issues of enzyme kinetics, stability studies and characterization are addressed.
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Laboratory Evolution of Stereoselective Enzymes: A Prolific Source of Catalysts for Asymmetric Reactions

TL;DR: Emphasis is placed on the development of methods to make laboratory evolution faster and more efficient, thus providing chemists and biotechnologists with a rich and non-ending source of robust and selective catalysts for a variety of useful applications.
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Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases: an update on perspectives for synthetic application.

TL;DR: A short up-to-date overview of recent results on P450 engineering for technical applications including aspects of whole-cell biocatalysis with engineered recombinant enzymes and recently identified P450s with novel biotechnologically relevant properties are given.
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Guidelines and Cost Analysis for Catalyst Production in Biocatalytic Processes

TL;DR: It is seen that the fermentation yield in terms of final achievable cell concentration and expression level as well as the production scale are crucial for decreasing the total cost contribution of the biocatalyst.
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