Enzyme responsive polymers enzymatic synthesis

Abstract Transferases are enzymes that catalyze reactions in which a group is transferred from one compound to another. This makes these enzymes ideal catalysts for polymerization reactions. In nature, transferases are responsible for the synthesis of many important natural macromolecules. In synthetic polymer chemistry, various transferases are used to synthesize polymers in vitro. This chapter reviews some of these approaches, such as the enzymatic polymerization of polyesters, polysaccharides, and polyisoprene. 

All naturally occurring polymers are prodnced in vivo hy enzymatic catalysis. Recently, in vitro synthesis of polymers throngh enzymatic catalysis ( enzymatic polymerization ) has heen extensively studied (6—14) highly selective pol5uner-izations catalyzed by enzymes have been developed to prodnce varions fimctional polymers in response to increasing demands of structnral variation of synthetic targets for polymers in material science. 

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