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Cavity Size Engineering of a β-Barrel Protein Generates Efficient Biohybrid Catalysts for Olefin Metathesis

2018; American Chemical Society; Volume: 8; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/acscatal.7b03652

ISSN

2155-5435

Autores

Alexander R. Grimm, Daniel F. Sauer, Mehdi D. Davari, Leilei Zhu, Marco Bocola, Shunsuke Kato, Akira Onoda, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Okuda, Ulrich Schwaneberg,

Tópico(s)

Biochemical and Structural Characterization

Resumo

Incorporation of a synthetic metal catalyst into a protein scaffold yields a biohybrid catalyst, with a remarkable performance in aqueous media and the broad reaction scope of organometallic catalysts. A major challenge for efficient catalysis is the design of the interface between the protein scaffold and the metal catalyst. Until now, protein scaffolds have primarily been engineered by exchanging individual amino acids to anchor metal catalysts and alter their immediate environment. Here, cavity size engineering of the β-barrel protein nitrobindin was performed by duplicating multiple β-strands to generate an expanded variant. The approach of cavity size engineering enabled covalent incorporation of bulky catalysts at excellent coupling efficiencies and yielded excellent conversions in olefin metathesis, including ring-closing metathesis, ring-opening metathesis polymerization, and cross metathesis (conversions up to 99% and turnover numbers up to 10000).

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