• openAccess   The role of streptavidin and its variants in catalysis by biotinylated secondary amines 

      Nödling, Alexander; Santi, Nicolò; Castillo, Raquel; Lipka-Lloyd, Magdalena; Jin, Yi; Morrill, Louis; Świderek, Katarzyna; Moliner, Vicent; Luk, Louis Yu Pan Royal Society of Chemistry (2021-11-15)
      Here, we combine the use of host screening, protein crystallography and QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations to investigate how the protein structure affects iminium catalysis by biotinylated secondary amines in a model ...
    • openAccess   Transfer hydrogenations catalyzed by streptavidin-hosted secondary amine organocatalysts 

      Santi, Nicolò; Morrill, Louis; Świderek, Katarzyna; Moliner, Vicent; Luk, Louis Yu Pan Royal Society of Chemistry (2021-02-21)
      Here, the streptavidin–biotin technology was applied to enable organocatalytic transfer hydrogenation. By introducing a biotintethered pyrrolidine (1) to the tetrameric streptavidin (T-Sav), the resulting hybrid catalyst ...