Catalysis and Electron Transfer in De Novo Designed Metalloproteins

KJ Koebke, TBJ Pinter, WC Pitts, VL Pecoraro - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
One of the hallmark advances in our understanding of metalloprotein function is showcased
in our ability to design new, non-native, catalytically active protein scaffolds. This review …

Deciphering chemical logic of fungal natural product biosynthesis through heterologous expression and genome mining

CY Chiang, M Ohashi, Y Tang - Natural product reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2022 Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene
clusters (BGCs) has become a widely used tool for genome mining of cryptic pathways …

FAD-dependent enzyme-catalysed intermolecular [4+ 2] cycloaddition in natural product biosynthesis

L Gao, C Su, X Du, R Wang, S Chen, Y Zhou, C Liu… - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Diels–Alder reaction is one of the most powerful and widely used methods in
synthetic chemistry for the stereospecific construction of carbon–carbon bonds. Despite the …

S-Adenosylmethionine: more than just a methyl donor

YH Lee, D Ren, B Jeon, H Liu - Natural product reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: from 2000 up to the very early part of 2023 S-Adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) is a
naturally occurring trialkyl sulfonium molecule that is typically associated with biological …

Efficient Lewis acid catalysis of an abiological reaction in a de novo protein scaffold

S Basler, S Studer, Y Zou, T Mori, Y Ota, A Camus… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
New enzyme catalysts are usually engineered by repurposing the active sites of natural
proteins. Here we show that design and directed evolution can be used to transform a non …

Enzymatic intermolecular hetero-Diels–Alder reaction in the biosynthesis of tropolonic sesquiterpenes

Q Chen, J Gao, C Jamieson, J Liu… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Diels–Alder reactions are among the most powerful synthetic transformations to construct
complex natural products. Despite that increasing of enzymatic intramolecular Diels–Alder …

[HTML][HTML] Development and research progress of anti-drug resistant fungal drugs

X Cui, L Wang, Y Lue, C Yue - Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2022 - Elsevier
With the widespread use of immunosuppressive agents and the increase in patients with
severe infections, the incidence of fungal infections worldwide has increased year by year …

Prospecting for natural products by genome mining and microcrystal electron diffraction

LJ Kim, M Ohashi, Z Zhang, D Tan, M Asay… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
More than 60% of pharmaceuticals are related to natural products (NPs), chemicals
produced by living organisms. Despite this, the rate of NP discovery has slowed over the …

Antibody pretargeting based on bioorthogonal click chemistry for cancer imaging and targeted radionuclide therapy

A Rondon, F Degoul - Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Bioorthogonal click chemistry—employing antibody-conjugated trans-cyclooctenes (TCO)
and tetrazine (Tz)-based radioligands able to covalently bind in vivo—appeared recently as …

An enantioselective ambimodal cross-Diels–Alder reaction and applications in synthesis

MM Xu, L Yang, K Tan, X Chen, QT Lu, KN Houk… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Compared with the conventional Diels–Alder reaction, the development of selective cross-
Diels–Alder reactions between two different conjugated dienes, especially in a catalytic …