A new-to-nature carboxylation module to improve natural and synthetic CO2 fixation

M Scheffen, DG Marchal, T Beneyton, SK Schuller… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
The capture of CO2 by carboxylases is key to sustainable biocatalysis and a carbon-neutral
bio-economy, yet currently limited to few naturally existing enzymes. Here, we developed …

Malonyl-CoA pathway: a promising route for 3-hydroxypropionate biosynthesis

C Liu, Y Ding, M Xian, M Liu, H Liu, Q Ma… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Hydroxypropionate (3HP) is an attractive platform chemical, serving as a precursor to a
variety of commodity chemicals like acrylate and acrylamide, as well as a monomer of a …

Design and in vitro realization of carbon-conserving photorespiration

DL Trudeau, C Edlich-Muth, J Zarzycki… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Photorespiration recycles ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco)
oxygenation product, 2-phosphoglycolate, back into the Calvin Cycle. Natural …

Coenzyme A thioester-mediated carbon chain elongation as a paintbrush to draw colorful chemical compounds

S Zhou, T Hao, S Xu, Y Deng - Biotechnology Advances, 2020 - Elsevier
The biosynthesis of various useful chemicals from simple substrates using industrial
microorganisms is becoming increasingly crucial to address the challenge of dwindling non …

Crystal structure of the 500-kDa yeast acetyl-CoA carboxylase holoenzyme dimer

J Wei, L Tong - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) has crucial roles in fatty acid metabolism and is an attractive
target for drug discovery against diabetes, cancer and other diseases,,,,,. Saccharomyces …

PHD3 loss promotes exercise capacity and fat oxidation in skeletal muscle

H Yoon, JB Spinelli, E Zaganjor, SJ Wong, NJ German… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Rapid alterations in cellular metabolism allow tissues to maintain homeostasis during
changes in energy availability. The central metabolic regulator acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2 …

The dynamic organization of fungal acetyl-CoA carboxylase

M Hunkeler, E Stuttfeld, A Hagmann, S Imseng… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Acetyl-CoA carboxylases (ACCs) catalyse the committed step in fatty-acid
biosynthesis: the ATP-dependent carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to malonyl-CoA. They are …

A unified molecular mechanism for the regulation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase by phosphorylation

J Wei, Y Zhang, TY Yu, K Sadre-Bazzaz, MJ Rudolph… - Cell discovery, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Acetyl-CoA carboxylases (ACCs) are crucial metabolic enzymes and attractive
targets for drug discovery. Eukaryotic acetyl-CoA carboxylases are 250 kDa single-chain …

A combined drug discovery strategy based on machine learning and molecular docking

Y Zhang, Y Wang, W Zhou, Y Fan… - Chemical Biology & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Data mining methods based on machine learning play an increasingly important role in drug
design and discovery. In the current work, eight machine learning methods including …

A permissive medium chain acyl-coA carboxylase enables the efficient biosynthesis of extender units for engineering polyketide carbon scaffolds

J Zhang, M Zheng, J Yan, Z Deng, D Zhu, X Qu - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
The selective incorporation of new-to-nature extender units into polyketide synthesis is a
highly effective way to engineer their carbon scaffolds. Currently, most atypical extender …