title: Regeneration of cofactors for use in biocatalysis.
abstract: Cofactor-dependent enzymes catalyze many synthetically useful reactions. The high cost of cofactors, however, necessitates in situ cofactor regeneration for preparative applications. After two decades of research, several cofactors can now be effectively regenerated using enzyme or whole-cell based methods. Significant advances have been made in this area in the past three years and include the development of novel or improved methods for regenerating ATP, sugar nucleotides and 3-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulphate. These approaches have found novel applications in biocatalysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. zhao5@uiuc.edu
authors.forename: Huimin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Wilfred A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: van der Donk
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D002384:Catalysis; D003352:Corynebacterium / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D003570:Cytidine Triphosphate / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D008954:Models, Biological; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D013429:Sulfatases / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D014544:Uridine Triphosphate / Q000138:chemical synthesis
chemical_list: D009844:Oligosaccharides; D011134:Polysaccharides; D003570:Cytidine Triphosphate; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D013429:Sulfatases; C027341:phosphoadenylylsulfatase; D014544:Uridine Triphosphate