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Publication Abstract from PubMed

While biocatalysis is increasingly incorporated into drug development pipelines, it is less commonly used in the early stages of drug discovery. By engineering a protein to produce a chiral motif with a derivatizable functional handle, biocatalysts can be used to help generate diverse building blocks for drug discovery. Here we show the engineering of two variants of Rhodothermus marinus nitric oxide dioxygenase (RmaNOD) to catalyze the formation of cis- and tran- diastereomers of a pinacolboronate-substituted cyclopropane which can be readily derivatized to generate diverse stereopure cyclopropane building blocks.

Diversity-Oriented Enzymatic Synthesis of Cyclopropane Building Blocks.,Wittmann BJ, Knight AM, Hofstra JL, Reisman SE, Kan SBJ, Arnold FH ACS Catal. 2020 Jul 2;10(13):7112-7116. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01888. Epub 2020 , Jun 4. PMID:33282460^[1]

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