Metabolic engineers endeavor to create a bio-based manufacturing industry using microbes
to produce fuels, chemicals, and medicines. Plant natural products (PNPs) are historically …

Nature has evolved halogenase enzymes to regioselectively halogenate a diverse range of
biosynthetic precursors, with the halogens introduced often having a profound effect on the …

Covering: 1976 to 2020. Although constituting a limited chemical family, phytostilbenes
represent an emblematic group of molecules among natural compounds. Ever since their …

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In current years, natural pigments are facing a fast-growing global market due to the
increase of people's awareness of health and the discovery of novel pharmacological effects …

Biology produces a universe of chemicals whose precision and complexity is the envy of
chemists. Over the last 30 years, the expansive field of metabolic engineering has many …

Phenolics are a class of plant-derived natural secondary metabolites with good anticancer,
anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and antioxidant activities. In addition to being natural health …

The aromatic amino acid biosynthesis pathway, together with its downstream branches,
represents one of the most commercially valuable biosynthetic pathways, producing a …

Highlights•Nutraceuticals are health-promoting compounds of diverse structures and
origins.•Metabolic engineering enables microbes for value-added nutraceutical …

Pinosylvin (3, 5-dihydroxy-trans-stilbene), a natural pre-infectious stilbenoid toxin, is a
terpenoid polyphenol compound principally found in the Vitaceae family in the heartwood of …