Physiology, Biochemistry, and Applications of F420- and Fo-Dependent Redox Reactions

C Greening, FH Ahmed, AE Mohamed… - Microbiology and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Deazaflavin cofactors enhance the metabolic flexibility of microorganisms by catalyzing a
wide range of challenging enzymatic redox reactions. While structurally similar to riboflavin …

Cofactor F420: an expanded view of its distribution, biosynthesis and roles in bacteria and archaea

R Grinter, C Greening - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Many bacteria and archaea produce the redox cofactor F420. F420 is structurally similar to
the cofactors FAD and FMN but is catalytically more similar to NAD and NADP. These …

Crystal structure of long-chain alkane monooxygenase (LadA) in complex with coenzyme FMN: unveiling the long-chain alkane hydroxylase

L Li, X Liu, W Yang, F Xu, W Wang, L Feng… - Journal of molecular …, 2008 - Elsevier
LadA, a long-chain alkane monooxygenase, utilizes a terminal oxidation pathway for the
conversion of long-chain alkanes (up to at least C36) to corresponding primary alcohols in …

Metabolic Engineering of Cofactor F420 Production in Mycobacterium smegmatis

G Bashiri, AM Rehan, DR Greenwood, JMJ Dickson… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Cofactor F420 is a unique electron carrier in a number of microorganisms including Archaea
and Mycobacteria. It has been shown that F420 has a direct and important role in archaeal …

The methanogenic redox cofactor F420 is widely synthesized by aerobic soil bacteria

B Ney, FH Ahmed, CR Carere, A Biswas… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
F420 is a low-potential redox cofactor that mediates the transformations of a wide range of
complex organic compounds. Considered one of the rarest cofactors in biology, F420 is best …

Genomic characterization of methanomicrobiales reveals three classes of methanogens

I Anderson, LE Ulrich, B Lupa, D Susanti, I Porat… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Methanomicrobiales is the least studied order of methanogens. While these
organisms appear to be more closely related to the Methanosarcinales in ribosomal-based …

[HTML][HTML] Biochemical fossils of the ancient transition from geoenergetics to bioenergetics in prokaryotic one carbon compound metabolism

FL Sousa, WF Martin - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2014 - Elsevier
The deep dichotomy of archaea and bacteria is evident in many basic traits including
ribosomal protein composition, membrane lipid synthesis, cell wall constituents, and …

Structural basis of hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis

S Shima, G Huang, T Wagner… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Most methanogenic archaea use the rudimentary hydrogenotrophic pathway—from CO2
and H2 to methane—as the terminal step of microbial biomass degradation in anoxic …

Structure of Ddn, the deazaflavin-dependent nitroreductase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis involved in bioreductive activation of PA-824

SE Cellitti, J Shaffer, DH Jones, T Mukherjee… - Structure, 2012 - cell.com
Tuberculosis continues to be a global health threat, making bicyclic nitroimidazoles an
important new class of therapeutics. A deazaflavin-dependent nitroreductase (Ddn) from …

Unexpected Abundance of Coenzyme F420-Dependent Enzymes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Other Actinobacteria

JD Selengut, DH Haft - Journal of bacteriology, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Regimens targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB),
require long courses of treatment and a combination of three or more drugs. An increase in …