Enzymatic halogenation and dehalogenation reactions: pervasive and mechanistically diverse

V Agarwal, ZD Miles, JM Winter, AS Eustáquio… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Naturally produced halogenated compounds are ubiquitous across all domains of life where
they perform a multitude of biological functions and adopt a diversity of chemical structures …

Development of halogenase enzymes for use in synthesis

J Latham, E Brandenburger, SA Shepherd… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
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 …

Halogenases: a palette of emerging opportunities for synthetic biology–synthetic chemistry and C–H functionalisation

C Crowe, S Molyneux, SV Sharma, Y Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The enzymatic generation of carbon–halogen bonds is a powerful strategy used by both
nature and synthetic chemists to tune the bioactivity, bioavailability and reactivity of …

Azaphilones: chemistry and biology

JM Gao, SX Yang, JC Qin - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Fungi have proved to be a rich and important source of a huge number of secondary
metabolites with a large variety of chemical structures and diverse biological activities …

Deciphering chemical logic of fungal natural product biosynthesis through heterologous expression and genome mining

CY Chiang, M Ohashi, Y Tang - Natural product reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2022 Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene
clusters (BGCs) has become a widely used tool for genome mining of cryptic pathways …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Developing fungal heterologous expression platforms to explore and improve the production of natural products from fungal biodiversity

X Meng, Y Fang, M Ding, Y Zhang, K Jia, Z Li… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural products from fungi represent an important source of biologically active metabolites
notably for therapeutic agent development. Genome sequencing revealed that the number …

Biosynthesis of Antibiotic Leucinostatins in Bio-control Fungus Purpureocillium lilacinum and Their Inhibition on Phytophthora Revealed by Genome Mining

G Wang, Z Liu, R Lin, E Li, Z Mao, J Ling, Y Yang… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Purpureocillium lilacinum of Ophiocordycipitaceae is one of the most promising and
commercialized agents for controlling plant parasitic nematodes, as well as other insects …

The Fumagillin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster in Aspergillus fumigatus Encodes a Cryptic Terpene Cyclase Involved in the Formation of β-trans-Bergamotene

HC Lin, YH Chooi, S Dhingra, W Xu… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Fumagillin 1 is a meroterpenoid from Aspergillus fumigatus that is known for its anti-
angiogenic activity by binding to human methionine aminopeptidase 2. The genetic and …

Secondary metabolites from hypocrealean entomopathogenic fungi: novel bioactive compounds

L Zhang, OE Fasoyin, I Molnár, Y Xu - Natural Product Reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2014 up to the third quarter of 2019 Entomopathogens constitute a unique,
specialized trophic subgroup of fungi, most of whose members belong to the order …