The structures of type I polyketide synthases

AT Keatinge-Clay - Natural product reports, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2012 With the recent structural characterization of each of the component
enzymes of type I polyketide synthases, scientists are coming tantalizingly close to …

Steps towards the synthetic biology of polyketide biosynthesis

M Cummings, R Breitling, E Takano - FEMS microbiology letters, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Nature is providing a bountiful pool of valuable secondary metabolites, many of which
possess therapeutic properties. However, the discovery of new bioactive secondary …

Structure of a modular polyketide synthase

S Dutta, JR Whicher, DA Hansen, WA Hale… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Polyketide natural products constitute a broad class of compounds with diverse structural
features and biological activities. Their biosynthetic machinery, represented by type I …

Engineering site-selective incorporation of fluorine into polyketides

S Sirirungruang, O Ad, TM Privalsky, S Ramesh… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Although natural products and synthetic small molecules both serve important medicinal
functions, their structures and chemical properties are relatively distinct. To expand the …

Structural rearrangements of a polyketide synthase module during its catalytic cycle

JR Whicher, S Dutta, DA Hansen, WA Hale… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The polyketide synthase (PKS) mega-enzyme assembly line uses a modular architecture to
synthesize diverse and bioactive natural products that often constitute the core structures or …

Expanding the fluorine chemistry of living systems using engineered polyketide synthase pathways

MC Walker, BW Thuronyi, LK Charkoudian, B Lowry… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Organofluorines represent a rapidly expanding proportion of molecules that are used in
pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, agrochemicals, and materials. Despite the prevalence of …

Chemoenzymatic Total Synthesis and Structural Diversification of Tylactone-Based Macrolide Antibiotics through Late-Stage Polyketide Assembly, Tailoring, and C …

AN Lowell, MD DeMars, ST Slocum, F Yu… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polyketide synthases (PKSs) represent a powerful catalytic platform capable of effecting
multiple carbon–carbon bond forming reactions and oxidation state adjustments. We …

Uncovering the structures of modular polyketide synthases

KJ Weissman - Natural product reports, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2014 The modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) are multienzyme proteins
responsible for the assembly of diverse secondary metabolites of high economic and …

Engineering polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases

GJ Williams - Current opinion in structural biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review engineering of polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide
synthetases.•Rational and evolutionary strategies for altering building block specificity are …

Engineering the acyltransferase substrate specificity of assembly line polyketide synthases

BJ Dunn, C Khosla - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Polyketide natural products act as a broad range of therapeutics, including antibiotics,
immunosuppressants and anti-cancer agents. This therapeutic diversity stems from the …