Journal
NEW BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 60, Issue -, Pages 113-123Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2020.08.006
Keywords
Biocatalysis; Biotransformation; Biosynthesis; Total synthesis; Bioprocesses
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Biocatalysis has had a significant impact in improving quality of life, with key tools providing opportunities for further development and applications in various sectors of the global bioeconomy. Systems biocatalysis and integration with sustainable chemistry in vitro aim at high molecular economy conversions, while tools such as bioinformatic tools and enzyme engineering are important for rapid prototyping of biocatalytic reactions and designing multi-step reactions.
In the area of human-made innovations to improve the quality of life, biocatalysis has already had a great impact and contributed enormously to a growing number of catalytic transformations aimed at the detection and analysis of compounds, the bioconversion of starting materials and the preparation of target compounds at any scale, from laboratory small scale to industrial large scale. The key enabling tools which have been developed in biocatalysis over the last decades also provide great opportunities for further development and numerous applications in various sectors of the global bioeconomy. Systems biocatalysis is a modular, bottom-up approach to designing the architecture of enzyme-catalyzed reaction steps in a synthetic route from starting materials to target molecules. The integration of biocatalysis and sustainable chemistry in vitro aims at ideal conversions with high molecular economy and their intensification. Retrosynthetic analysis in the chemical and biological domain has been a valuable tool for target-oriented synthesis while, on the other hand, diversity-oriented synthesis builds on forward-looking analysis. Bioinformatic tools for rapid identification of the required enzyme functions, efficient enzyme production systems, as well as generalized bioprocess design tools, are important for rapid prototyping of the biocatalytic reactions. The tools for enzyme engineering and the reaction engineering of each enzyme-catalyzed one-step reaction are also valuable for coupling reactions. The tools to overcome interaction issues with other components or enzymes are of great interest in designing multi-step reactions as well as in biocatalytic total synthesis.
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