Progress in the Chemistry of Tetrahydroquinolines

I Muthukrishnan, V Sridharan, JC Menendez - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Tetrahydroquinoline is one of the most important simple nitrogen heterocycles, being
widespread in nature and present in a broad variety of pharmacologically active …

Oxidative cyclization in natural product biosynthesis

MC Tang, Y Zou, K Watanabe, CT Walsh… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Oxidative cyclizations are important transformations that occur widely during natural product
biosynthesis. The transformations from acyclic precursors to cyclized products can afford …

Biosynthesis of fungal meroterpenoids

Y Matsuda, I Abe - Natural product reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to September 2015 Meroterpenoids are hybrid natural products that partially
originate from the terpenoid pathway. The meroterpenoids derived from fungi display quite …

Dioxygen activation by nonheme iron enzymes with the 2-His-1-carboxylate facial triad that generate high-valent oxoiron oxidants

S Kal, L Que - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The 2-His-1-carboxylate facial triad is a widely used scaffold to bind the iron center
in mononuclear nonheme iron enzymes for activating dioxygen in a variety of oxidative …

Enzymatic Hydroxylations of sp3-Carbons

J Munch, P Pullmann, W Zhang, MJ Weissenborn - Acs Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enzymatic hydroxylation of activated and nonactivated sp3-carbons attracts keen interest
from the chemistry community as it is one of the most challenging tasks in organic synthesis …

Terpene synthases in disguise: enzymology, structure, and opportunities of non-canonical terpene synthases

JD Rudolf, CY Chang - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to July 2019 Terpene synthases (TSs) are responsible for generating much of
the structural diversity found in the superfamily of terpenoid natural products. These elegant …

Structural diversity, bioactivities, and biosynthesis of natural diterpenoid alkaloids

Y Shen, WJ Liang, YN Shi, EJ Kennelly… - Natural Product …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2009 to 2018. Diterpenoid alkaloids, originating from the amination of natural
tetracyclic diterpenes, are a diverse class of compounds having complex structural features …

Recent examples of α-ketoglutarate-dependent mononuclear non-haem iron enzymes in natural product biosyntheses

SS Gao, N Naowarojna, R Cheng, X Liu… - Natural product reports, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2018 α-Ketoglutarate (αKG, also known as 2-oxoglutarate)-dependent
mononuclear non-haem iron (αKG-NHFe) enzymes catalyze a wide range of biochemical …

Engineering Fe (II)/α-ketoglutarate-dependent halogenases and desaturases

A Papadopoulou, F Meyer, RM Buller - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fe (II)/α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases (α-KGDs) are widespread enzymes in
aerobic biology and serve a remarkable array of biological functions, including roles in …

Chemodiversity in the genus Aspergillus

JC Frisvad, TO Larsen - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2015 - Springer
Isolates of Aspergillus species are able to produce a large number of secondary
metabolites. The profiles of biosynthetic families of secondary metabolites are species …