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Back Cover: On the Way to Cofactor Regeneration in Nanopores: Tailoring Porous Materials for Glucose‐6‐phosphate Dehydrogenase Immobilization (ChemCatChem 4/2013)
Author(s) -
Fried Dorothee I.,
Tropp Kristin,
Fröba Michael
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201390017
Subject(s) - cofactor , biocatalysis , mesoporous material , dehydrogenase , nanopore , substrate (aquarium) , regeneration (biology) , chemistry , enzyme , porosity , diffusion , chemical engineering , materials science , immobilized enzyme , catalysis , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , reaction mechanism , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , engineering , ecology , thermodynamics , physics
Driving the wheel! This cover picture shows the schematic framework of mesoporous silica foam (MCF) that is used for the immobilization of glucose‐6‐phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) a cofactorregenerating enzyme. In their Full Paper on p 931 ff. , M. Fröba et al. focused on the functionalization of the MCF to tailor this support according to the needs of G6PDH. The 3‐dimensional connected spherical pores appeared an ideal host for the enzyme in terms of substrate diffusion and enzyme stabilization. These results prove that this biocatalyst can be used to efficiently drive the wheel of cofactor regeneration.