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 …

MR1 displays the microbial metabolome driving selective MR1-restricted T cell receptor usage

MJ Harriff, C McMurtrey, CA Froyd, H Jin… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
MR1-restricted T cells (MR1Ts) are a T cell subset that recognize and mediate host defense
to a broad array of microbial pathogens, including respiratory pathogens (eg …

Hydroxylated fluorescent dyes for live‐cell labeling: synthesis, spectra and super‐resolution STED

AN Butkevich, VN Belov, K Kolmakov… - … A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroxylated rhodamines, carbopyronines, silico‐and germanorhodamines with absorption
maxima in the range of 530–640 nm were prepared and applied in specific labeling of living …

Tuning deazaflavins towards highly potent reducing photocatalysts guided by mechanistic understanding–enhancement of the key step by the internal heavy atom …

T Pavlovska, D Král Lesný, E Svobodová… - … A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Deazaflavins are well suited for reductive chemistry acting via a consecutive photo‐induced
electron transfer, in which their triplet state and semiquinone–the latter is formed from the …

Improved production of the non-native cofactor F420 in Escherichia coli

MV Shah, H Nazem-Bokaee, J Antoney, SW Kang… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The deazaflavin cofactor F420 is a low-potential, two-electron redox cofactor produced by
some Archaea and Eubacteria that is involved in methanogenesis and methanotrophy …

[HTML][HTML] High-yield production of coenzyme F420 in Escherichia coli by fluorescence-based screening of multi-dimensional gene expression space

D Last, M Hasan, L Rothenburger, D Braga… - Metabolic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coenzyme F 420 is involved in bioprocesses such as biosynthesis of antibiotics by
streptomycetes, prodrug activation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and methanogenesis in …

Cofactor F420-Dependent Enzymes: An Under-Explored Resource for Asymmetric Redox Biocatalysis

MV Shah, J Antoney, SW Kang, AC Warden, CJ Hartley… - Catalysts, 2019 - mdpi.com
The asymmetric reduction of enoates, imines and ketones are among the most important
reactions in biocatalysis. These reactions are routinely conducted using enzymes that use …

A photoenzymatic NADH regeneration system

GT Höfler, E Fernández‐Fueyo, M Pesic… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A photoenzymatic NADH regeneration system was established. The combination of
deazariboflavin as a photocatalyst with putidaredoxin reductase enabled the selective …

Heterologous Catalysis of the Final Steps of Tetracycline Biosynthesis by Saccharomyces cerevisiae

E Herbst, A Lee, Y Tang, SA Snyder… - ACS chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Developing treatments for antibiotic resistant bacterial infections is among the highest
priority public health challenges worldwide. Tetracyclines, one of the most important classes …