Light-Driven, Quantum Dot-Mediated Regeneration of FMN To Drive Reduction of Ketoisophorone by Old Yellow Enzyme

We report the full reduction of the biological cofactor FMN with visible light using CdSe quantum dots and methylviologen as an electron relay. In turn, these reducing equivalents can drive the stereospecific reduction of ketoisophorone by an old yellow enzyme homologue from Bacillus subtilis (YqjM)...

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Autores:
Panay Escobar, Aram Joel
Tipo de recurso:
Article of investigation
Fecha de publicación:
2012
Institución:
Universidad ICESI
Repositorio:
Repositorio ICESI
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.icesi.edu.co:10906/79886
Acceso en línea:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cs300085h
http://hdl.handle.net/10906/79886
https://doi.org/10.1021/cs300085h
Palabra clave:
Enzimas
Bacillus
Bacillus subtillis
Cetoisoforona
Rights
openAccess
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Summary:We report the full reduction of the biological cofactor FMN with visible light using CdSe quantum dots and methylviologen as an electron relay. In turn, these reducing equivalents can drive the stereospecific reduction of ketoisophorone by an old yellow enzyme homologue from Bacillus subtilis (YqjM). The experiments demonstrate the current capabilities and limitations of quantum dots as part of a cofactor regeneration system and pave the road for future studies aimed at new and improved in situ light-driven cofactor regeneration strategies.