Journal
ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH
Volume 36, Issue 7, Pages 562-570Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ar020037j
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Effective artificial enzymes have been designed by adopting macromolecular systems for catalyst-substrate complexes. Artificial active sites comprising two or more organic functional groups were built on macromolecutar backbones, leading to several types of organic artificial proteases. The activity of metal centers for peptide or DNA hydrolysis was greatly enhanced by attachment to polystyrene, leading to artificial metallopeptidases with substrate selectivity as well as artificial metallonucleases with high catalytic activity for double stranded DNA. A small artificial protease selective for a macromolecular target protein was synthesized. Target-specific artificial proteases can be used as protein-cleaving catalytic drugs.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available