Abstract

Enzyme-catalyzed cascade reactions have attracted an increasing attention with many advantages, such as environmental protection, high efficiency and no need for intermediate purification. The present overview has summarized enzymatic cascade benefit systems, including double-enzyme, multi-enzyme, and chemical-enzyme catalytic one-pot reactions. With the continuous developments in protein engineering, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and systems biocatalysis, multi-step biotransformations will expand the scope of application, as well as enhance the biocatalytic efficiency.

Keywords: Biocatalysis, cascade reaction, enzyme, multi-step biotransformations, one-pot reactions, synthetic biology.