Charting the evolution of chemoenzymatic strategies in the syntheses of complex natural products

CN Stout, NM Wasfy, F Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bolstered by recent advances in bioinformatics, genetics, and enzyme engineering, the field
of chemoenzymatic synthesis has enjoyed a rapid increase in popularity and utility. This …

Organocatalytic asymmetric epoxidation and aziridination of olefins and their synthetic applications

Y Zhu, Q Wang, RG Cornwall, Y Shi - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Organocatalytic Asymmetric Epoxidation and Aziridination of Olefins and Their Synthetic
Applications | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS Publications C&EN CAS Find my institution Log In …

Modular polyketide synthase contains two reaction chambers that operate asynchronously

SR Bagde, II Mathews, JC Fromme, CY Kim - Science, 2021 - science.org
Type I modular polyketide synthases are homodimeric multidomain assembly line enzymes
that synthesize a variety of polyketide natural products by performing polyketide chain …

Enzymatic chemistry of cyclopropane, epoxide, and aziridine biosynthesis

CJ Thibodeaux, W Chang, H Liu - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Cyclopropane, epoxide, and aziridine groups are three-membered ring structural elements
found in a wide variety of natural products, some of which are depicted in Figure 1. 1 The …

Epoxide‐opening cascades in the synthesis of polycyclic polyether natural products

I Vilotijevic, TF Jamison - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The structural features of polycyclic polyether natural products can, in some cases, be traced
to their biosynthetic origin. However in case that are less well understood, only biosynthetic …

Activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters using transcription factor decoys

B Wang, F Guo, SH Dong, H Zhao - Nature chemical biology, 2019 - nature.com
Here we report a transcription factor decoy strategy for targeted activation of eight large
silent polyketide synthase and non-ribosomal peptide synthetase gene clusters, ranging …

Post-PKS tailoring steps in natural product-producing actinomycetes from the perspective of combinatorial biosynthesis

C Olano, C Méndez, JA Salas - Natural product reports, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2002 to September 2009 In recent years, a number of gene clusters involved in
the biosynthesis of polyketide compounds have been characterized and the genes have …

Pnictogen‐bonding catalysis: An interactive tool to uncover unorthodox mechanisms in polyether cascade cyclizations

M Paraja, A Gini, N Sakai… - Chemistry–A European …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Pnictogen‐bonding catalysis and supramolecular σ‐hole catalysis in general is currently
being introduced as the non‐covalent counterpart of covalent Lewis acid catalysis. With …

Enzymatic catalysis of anti-Baldwin ring closure in polyether biosynthesis

K Hotta, X Chen, RS Paton, A Minami, H Li… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Polycyclic polyether natural products have fascinated chemists and biologists alike owing to
their useful biological activity, highly complex structure and intriguing biosynthetic …

Synthetic and biosynthetic methods for selective cyclisations of 4, 5-epoxy alcohols to tetrahydropyrans

JI Bowen, L Wang, MP Crump, CL Willis - Organic & Biomolecular …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Tetrahydropyrans (THPs) are common structural motifs found in natural products and
synthetic therapeutic molecules. In Nature these 6-membered oxygen heterocycles are often …