Gut reactions: breaking down xenobiotic–microbiome interactions

G Clarke, KV Sandhu, BT Griffin, TG Dinan… - Pharmacological …, 2019 - ASPET
The microbiome plays a key role in health and disease, and there has been considerable
interest in therapeutic targeting of the microbiome as well as mining this rich resource in …

New synthetic cannabinoids metabolism and strategies to best identify optimal marker metabolites

X Diao, MA Huestis - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) were initially developed as pharmacological tools to probe the
endocannabinoid system and as novel pharmacotherapies, but are now highly abused. This …

Recent advances in fungal xenobiotic metabolism: enzymes and applications

MF Khan, C Hof, P Niemcová, CD Murphy - World Journal of Microbiology …, 2023 - Springer
Fungi have been extensively studied for their capacity to biotransform a wide range of
natural and xenobiotic compounds. This versatility is a reflection of the broad substrate …

[HTML][HTML] Cytochrome P450 5208A3 is a promiscuous xenobiotic biotransforming enzyme in Cunninghamella elegans

MF Khan, CD Murphy - Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cunninghamella elegans is a long-established microbial model of mammalian drug and
xenobiotic metabolism enabled by the actions of cytochrome P450 enzymes that are poorly …

Microbial degradation of fluorinated drugs: biochemical pathways, impacts on the environment and potential applications

CD Murphy - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2016 - Springer
Since the discovery over 60 years ago of fluorocortisone's biological properties (9-α-Fluoro
derivatives of cortisone and hydrocortisone; Fried J and Sabo EF, J Am Chem Soc 76: 1455 …

Cyhalothrin biodegradation in Cunninghamella elegans

W Palmer-Brown, PL de Melo Souza… - … Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
The insecticide λ-cyhalothrin was incubated with planktonic and biofilm cultures of the
fungus Cunninghamella elegans. 19 F nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy …

Recent advances in biotransformation by Cunninghamella species

MD Gonçalves, F Tomiotto-Pellissier… - Current Drug …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
The goal of the biotransformation process is to develop structural changes and generate
new chemical compounds, which can occur naturally in mammalian and microbial …

Simultaneous removal of malachite green and hexavalent chromium by Cunninghamella elegans biofilm in a semi-continuous system

S Hussain, L Quinn, J Li, E Casey… - International …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study was conducted to evaluate the potential of the fungus Cunninghamella
elegans for simultaneous decolourisation of a triphenylmethane dye malachite green (MG) …

[HTML][HTML] Accessing Nature's diversity through metabolic engineering and synthetic biology

JR King, S Edgar, K Qiao, G Stephanopoulos - F1000Research, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In this perspective, we highlight recent examples and trends in metabolic engineering and
synthetic biology that demonstrate the synthetic potential of enzyme and pathway …

The CYPome of the model xenobiotic-biotransforming fungus Cunninghamella elegans

W Palmer-Brown, R Miranda-CasoLuengo, KH Wolfe… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The fungus Cunninghamella elegans is recognised as a microbial model of mammalian
drug metabolism owing to its ability to catabolise xenobiotic compounds in an analogous …