The architectures of iterative type I PKS and FAS

DA Herbst, CA Townsend, T Maier - Natural product reports, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to mid of 2018 Type I fatty acid synthases (FASs) are giant multienzymes
catalyzing all steps of the biosynthesis of fatty acids from acetyl-and malonyl-CoA by iterative …

Biosynthesis of cyclopropane in natural products

S Ma, D Mandalapu, S Wang, Q Zhang - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2012 to 2021 Cyclopropane attracts wide interests in the fields of synthetic and
pharmaceutical chemistry, and chemical biology because of its unique structural and …

Engineering strategies for rational polyketide synthase design

M Klaus, M Grininger - Natural product reports, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: mid 1990s to 2018 Over the last two decades, diverse approaches have been
explored to generate new polyketides by engineering polyketide synthases (PKSs) …

Animal fatty acid synthase: a chemical nanofactory

P Paiva, FE Medina, M Viegas, P Ferreira… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Fatty acids are crucial molecules for most living beings, very well spread and conserved
across species. These molecules play a role in energy storage, cell membrane architecture …

The hidden enzymology of bacterial natural product biosynthesis

TA Scott, J Piel - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Bacterial natural products display astounding structural diversity, which, in turn, endows
them with a remarkable range of biological activities that are of significant value to modern …

The uncommon enzymology of cis-acyltransferase assembly lines

AT Keatinge-Clay - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The enzymology of 135 assembly lines containing primarily cis-acyltransferase modules is
comprehensively analyzed, with greater attention paid to less common phenomena. Diverse …

Mycocerosic acid synthase exemplifies the architecture of reducing polyketide synthases

DA Herbst, RP Jakob, F Zähringer, T Maier - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Polyketide synthases (PKSs) are biosynthetic factories that produce natural products with
important biological and pharmacological activities,,. Their exceptional product diversity is …

Polyketide β-branching: diversity, mechanism and selectivity

PD Walker, ANM Weir, CL Willis, MP Crump - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2008 to August 2020 Polyketides are a family of natural products constructed from
simple building blocks to generate a diverse range of often complex chemical structures with …

Domain Organization and Active Site Architecture of a Polyketide Synthase C-methyltransferase

MA Skiba, AP Sikkema, WD Fiers… - ACS chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Polyketide metabolites produced by modular type I polyketide synthases (PKS) acquire their
chemical diversity through the variety of catalytic domains within modules of the pathway …

Protein–protein interactions in “cis-AT” polyketide synthases

GJ Dodge, FP Maloney, JL Smith - Natural product reports, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the end of 2018 Polyketides are a valuable source of bioactive and clinically
important molecules. The biosynthesis of these chemically complex molecules has led to the …