Engineering a Photoenzyme to Use Red Light
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Abstract
Photoenzymatic catalysis is an emerging platform for asymmetric synthesis. In most of these reactions, the protein templates a charge transfer complex between the cofactor and substrate, which absorbs in the blue region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Here, we report the engineering of a photoenzymatic ‘ene’-reductase to utilize red light (620 nm) for a radical cyclization reaction. Mechanistic studies indicate that red light ac-tivity is achieved by introducing a broadly absorbing shoulder off the previously identified cyan absorption feature. Molecular dynamics simulations, docking, and excited-state calculations suggest that red light absorption is a 𝜋→ 𝜋* transition from flavin to the substrate, while the cyan feature is the red-shift of the flavin 𝜋→ 𝜋* transition, which occurs upon substrate binding. Differences in the excitation event help to disfavor alkylation of the flavin cofactor, a pathway for catalyst decomposition observed with cyan light but not red.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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