Diversity-Oriented Enzymatic Synthesis of Cyclopropane Building Blocks.
Wittmann, B.J., Knight, A.M., Hofstra, J.L., Reisman, S.E., Kan, S.B.J., Arnold, F.H.(2020) ACS Catal 10: 7112-7116
- PubMed: 33282460 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c01888
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6WK3 - PubMed Abstract: 
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 ( Rma NOD) 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.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Division of Biology and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 210-41, Pasadena, California 91125, United States.