Metalloenzyme Biogenesis and Biocatalysis
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2022) | Viewed by 11195
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resonance Raman and SERR spectroscopy; bioelectrocatalysis; metalloproteins; heterogeneous electron transfer; biosensing
Interests: NMR spectroscopy; multihemic cytochromes; metal-respiring organisms; microbial fuel cells; metalloproteins
Interests: EPR spectroscopy; metalloproteins; ROS detoxification; haem-copper oxygen reductases; di-iron proteins
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metalloproteins and metalloenzymes make up more than 40% of the proteome of living organisms. Their importance is well appreciated, even by the general public, given the widely known example of the red color of blood due to hemoglobin. Indeed, the activity of metalloenzymes has an outsized impact on numerous contemporary societal challenges. They allow us to, e.g., live using oxygen, capture CO2, generate ammonia from the atmospheric nitrogen, degrade toxic exogenous molecules, and produce hydrogen from sustainable sources. The process of their biogenesis involves the uptake, homeostatic control, and delivery of metals to the correct apo-protein at the precise timing to generate the active holoprotein. The controlled assembly of metalloenzymes and further exploration of their catalytic activity is conveniently monitored by spectroscopic methods.
This Special Issue explores the fundamentals and applications of exciting metabolic processes that involve metalloproteins and metalloenzymes, and the tools that allow for their in-detail investigations.
Dr. Smilja Todorovic
Dr. Ricardo O. Louro
Prof. Dr. Miguel Teixeira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Fe-S containing proteins
- hemeproteins
- paramagnetic NMR spectroscopy
- EPR spectroscopy of metalloproteins
- resonance Raman and IR biospectroscopy
- enzymatic biocatalysis