Round, round we go–strategies for enzymatic cofactor regeneration

S Mordhorst, JN Andexer - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the beginning of 2020 Enzymes depending on cofactors are essential in
many biosynthetic pathways of natural products. They are often involved in key steps …

Methyltransferases: functions and applications

E Abdelraheem, B Thair, RF Varela… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this review the current state‐of‐the‐art of S‐adenosylmethionine (SAM)‐dependent
methyltransferases and SAM are evaluated. Their structural classification and diversity is …

Multienzyme Cascade Reactions Status and Recent Advances

JM Sperl, V Sieber - Acs Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cascade reactions catalyzed by multienzymatic systems have strongly moved into the focus
of researchers in the field of biocatalysis because of their unique potential for the …

Constructing biocatalytic cascades: in vitro and in vivo approaches to de novo multi-enzyme pathways

SP France, LJ Hepworth, NJ Turner, SL Flitsch - Acs Catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
The combination of sequential biocatalytic reactions, via non-natural synthetic cascades, is a
rapidly developing field and leads to the generation of complex valuable chemicals from …

Catalytic Alkylation Using a Cyclic S‐Adenosylmethionine Regeneration System

S Mordhorst, J Siegrist, M Müller… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
S‐Adenosylmethionine‐dependent methyltransferases are versatile tools for the specific
alkylation of many compounds, such as pharmaceuticals, but their biocatalytic application is …

Non-Native Site-Selective Enzyme Catalysis

D Mondal, HM Snodgrass, CA Gomez… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ability to site-selectively modify equivalent functional groups in a molecule has the
potential to streamline syntheses and increase product yields by lowering step counts …

A structural metagenomics pipeline for examining the gut microbiome

ME Walker, JB Simpson, MR Redinbo - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Metagenomic sequencing data provide a rich resource from which to expand our
understanding of differential protein functions involved in human health. Here, we outline a …

A bicyclic S-adenosylmethionine regeneration system applicable with different nucleosides or nucleotides as cofactor building blocks

D Popadić, D Mhaindarkar, MHND Thai… - RSC Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The ubiquitous cofactor S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) is part of numerous biochemical
reactions in metabolism, epigenetics, and cancer development. As methylation usually …

Enzymatic synthesis of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids using a parallel cascade strategy and tyrosinase variants

Y Wang, F Subrizi, EM Carter, TD Sheppard… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Benzylisoquinoline alkaloid derived pharmaceuticals are widely applied in modern
medicines. Recent studies on the microbial production of benzylisoquinolines have …

Synthetic application of chalcogenonium salts: beyond sulfonium

AYB Ángel, PRO Campos, EE Alberto - Organic & Biomolecular …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The application of chalcogenonium salts in organic synthesis has grown enormously in the
past decades since the discovery of the methyltransferase enzyme cofactor S-adenosyl-L …