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CHEMICAL REVIEWS
Volume 121, Issue 10, Pages 6173-6245Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01201
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT, and future Planning [2020R1A2C2009806]
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The two main strategies for enzyme engineering, directed evolution and rational design, have been widely used to improve the intrinsic activities of proteins. However, the limited chemical diversity of biopolymers, restricted to 20 canonical amino acids, hinders the creation of novel enzymes. To overcome this, researchers have been devoted to expanding the protein sequence space through chemical modifications and/or incorporation of noncanonical amino acids.
The two main strategies for enzyme engineering, directed evolution and rational design, have found widespread applications in improving the intrinsic activities of proteins. Although numerous advances have been achieved using these ground-breaking methods, the limited chemical diversity of the biopolymers, restricted to the 20 canonical amino acids, hampers creation of novel enzymes that Nature has never made thus far. To address this, much research has been devoted to expanding the protein sequence space via chemical modifications and/or incorporation of noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs). This review provides a balanced discussion and critical evaluation of the applications, recent advances, and technical breakthroughs in biocatalysis for three approaches: (i) chemical modification of cAAs, (ii) incorporation of ncAAs, and (iii) chemical modification of incorporated ncAAs. Furthermore, the applications of these approaches and the result on the functional properties and mechanistic study of the enzymes are extensively reviewed. We also discuss the design of artificial enzymes and directed evolution strategies for enzymes with ncAAs incorporated. Finally, we discuss the current challenges and future perspectives for biocatalysis using the expanded amino acid alphabet.
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