Enzymatic carbon–sulfur bond formation in natural product biosynthesis

KL Dunbar, DH Scharf, A Litomska… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Sulfur plays a critical role for the development and maintenance of life on earth, which is
reflected by the wealth of primary metabolites, macromolecules, and cofactors bearing this …

Oxidative cyclization in natural product biosynthesis

MC Tang, Y Zou, K Watanabe, CT Walsh… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Oxidative cyclizations are important transformations that occur widely during natural product
biosynthesis. The transformations from acyclic precursors to cyclized products can afford …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity of the reaction mechanisms of SAM-dependent enzymes

Q Sun, M Huang, Y Wei - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is ubiquitous in living organisms and is of great significance in
metabolism as a cofactor of various enzymes. Methyltransferases (MTases), a major group …

Metabolomics and Genomics Enable the Discovery of a New Class of Nonribosomal Peptidic Metallophores from a Marine Micromonospora

Q Wu, BA Bell, JX Yan, MG Chevrette… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although microbial genomes harbor an abundance of biosynthetic gene clusters, there
remain substantial technological gaps that impair the direct correlation of newly discovered …

Heterologous and engineered biosynthesis of nematocidal polyketide–nonribosomal peptide hybrid macrolactone from extreme thermophilic fungi

JM Zhang, HH Wang, X Liu, CH Hu… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fungal polyketide–nonribosomal peptide (PK–NRP) hybrid macrolactones are a growing
family of natural products with biomedical and agricultural activities. One of the most …

Structural Design of Single‐Atom Catalysts for Enhancing Petrochemical Catalytic Reaction Process

M Li, G Sun, Z Wang, X Zhang, J Peng… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Petroleum, as the “lifeblood” of industrial development, is the important energy source and
raw material. The selective transformation of petroleum into high‐end chemicals is of great …

Natural polyenic macrolactams and polycyclic derivatives generated by transannular pericyclic reactions: optimized biogenesis challenging chemical synthesis

R Alvarez, AR de Lera - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering from 1992 to the end of 2020-11-20. Genetically-encoded polyenic macrolactams,
which are constructed by Nature using hybrid polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide …

Cis double bond formation in polyketide biosynthesis

Z Yin, JS Dickschat - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2020 Polyketides form a large group of bioactive secondary metabolites that
usually contain one or more double bonds. Although most of the double bonds found in …

Stable Isotope-Guided Metabolomics Reveals Polar-Functionalized Fatty-Acylated RiPPs from Streptomyces

S Asamizu, S Ijichi, S Hoshino, H Jo… - ACS Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs) with polar-
functionalized fatty acyl groups are a rarely found untapped class of natural products …

Enzymatic Amide Tailoring Promotes Retro‐Aldol Amino Acid Conversion To Form the Antifungal Agent Aspirochlorine

Y Tsunematsu, N Maeda, M Yokoyama… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aspirochlorine is an unusual antifungal cyclopeptide produced by Aspergillus oryzae, an
important mold used for food fermentation. Whereas its structure suggested that a non …