Environmentally friendly degradation and detoxification using a bacterial laccase and hydrogen peroxide

Environmentally friendly degradation and detoxification using a bacterial laccase and hydrogen peroxide
Efficient, green method uses Vitreoscilla hemoglobin in water at room temperature
Biocatalyzed alcohol oxidation and chemocatalyzed Pictet-Spengler annulation give tetrahydroisoquinolines and tryptolines
Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent Mannich cyclase can deuterate a diverse range of amino acids
Semisynthetic approach to the development of next-generation antibiotics
New type of inhibitor scaffold for intramembrane serine proteases discovered
Talks by Stephan Hacker, Leiden University, Alanna Schepartz, UC Berkeley, Nina Hartrampf, University of Zurich, and Herbert Waldmann, MPI Dortmund
Easy-to-use one-pot procedure can be used to formylate protected peptides at both the N-terminus and at lysine side chains
Low toxicity accompanied by broad-spectrum activity
Dioxygenase from Caulobacter segnis catalyzes the oxidative cleavage of C=C bonds in various trans-stilbenes