Thermophilic enzymes have advantages for their use in commercial applications and particularly for the production of chiral compounds to produce optically pure pharmaceuticals. They can be used as biocatalysts in the application of 'green chemistry'. The thermophilic archaea contain enzymes that have already been used in commercial applications such as the L-aminoacylase from Thermococcus litor...

Vectorial charge transfer and a molecular recognition at the interface between two dielectric media are important stages in many bioelectrochemical processes such as those mediated by energy-transducing membranes [1–4]. Many biochemical redox reactions take place at aqueous medium/membrane interfaces and some of them are multielectron processes. About 90% of the oxygen consumed on Earth is redu...

Some hemoproteins have the structural robustness to withstand extraction of the heme cofactor and replacement with a heme analog. Recent reports have reignited interest and exploration in this field by demonstrating the versatility of these systems. Heme binding proteins can be utilized as protein scaffolds to support heme analogs that can facilitate new reactivity by noncovalent bonding at the...