Electrocatalytic Volleyball: Rapid Nanoconfined Nicotinamide Cycling for Organic Synthesis in Electrode Pores

Clare F. Megarity, Bhavin Siritanaratkul, Rachel S. Heath, Lei Wan, Giorgio Morello, Sarah R. FitzPatrick, Rosalind L. Booth, Adam J. Sills, Alexander W. Robertson, Jamie H. Warner, Nicholas J. Turner, Fraser A. Armstrong

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Abstract

In living cells, redox chains rely on nanoconfinement using tiny enclosures, such as the mitochondrial matrix or chloroplast stroma, to concentrate enzymes and limit distances that nicotinamide cofactors and other metabolites must diffuse. In a chemical analogue exploiting this principle, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) and NADP+ are cycled rapidly between ferredoxin–NADP+ reductase and a second enzyme—the pairs being juxtaposed within the 5–100 nm scale pores of an indium tin oxide electrode. The resulting electrode material, denoted (FNR+E2)@ITO/support, can drive and exploit a potentially large number of enzyme-catalysed reactions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5002-5006
Number of pages5
JournalAngewandte Chemie
Volume131
Issue number15
Early online date11 Jan 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2019

Keywords

  • cofactor recycling
  • electrocatalysis
  • ferredoxin NADP reductase
  • nanoconfinement
  • nicotinamide
  • ferredoxin NADP + reductase

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Manchester Institute of Biotechnology

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