2-Deoxystreptamine: central scaffold of aminoglycoside antibiotics

GF Busscher, FPJT Rutjes, FL Van Delft - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
A key structural feature of the aminoglycoside antibiotics is a 1, 3-diaminocyclohexanetriol
termed streptamine or, in cases where the 2-hydroxy function is deoxygenated as in most …

Biosynthesis of aminocyclitol-aminoglycoside antibiotics and related compounds

PM Flatt, T Mahmud - Natural product reports, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Biosynthesis of aminocyclitol-aminoglycoside antibiotics and related compounds - Natural
Product Reports (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B603816F Royal Society of Chemistry View PDF …

Biosynthetic genes for aminoglycoside antibiotics

F Kudo, T Eguchi - The Journal of antibiotics, 2009 - nature.com
Biosynthetic studies of aminoglycoside antibiotics have progressed remarkably during the
last decade. Many biosynthetic gene clusters for aminoglycoside antibiotics including …

Discovery of parallel pathways of kanamycin biosynthesis allows antibiotic manipulation

JW Park, SR Park, KK Nepal, AR Han, YH Ban… - Nature chemical …, 2011 - nature.com
Kanamycin is one of the most widely used antibiotics, yet its biosynthetic pathway remains
unclear. Current proposals suggest that the kanamycin biosynthetic products are linearly …

Novel enzymatic mechanisms in carbohydrate metabolism

X He, G Agnihotri, H Liu - Chemical reviews, 2000 - ACS Publications
Carbohydrates form the most abundant group of natural products and are found in all
classes of living organisms. 1-8 They serve as a direct link between the energy of the sun …

Detailed reaction mechanism of macrophomate synthase: extraordinary enzyme catalyzing five-step transformation from 2-pyrones to benzoates

K Watanabe, T Mie, A Ichihara, H Oikawa… - Journal of Biological …, 2000 - ASBMB
Macrophomate synthase from the fungusMacrophoma commelinae IFO 9570 is a Mg (II)-
dependent dimeric enzyme that catalyzes an extraordinary, complex five-step chemical …

Aminoglycoside antibiotics: new insights into the biosynthetic machinery of old drugs

F Kudo, T Eguchi - The Chemical Record, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Deoxystreptamine (2DOS) is the unique chemically stable aminocyclitol scaffold of clinically
important aminoglycoside antibiotics such as neomycin, kanamycin, and gentamicin, which …

Butirosin-biosynthetic gene cluster from Bacillus circulans

Y Ota, H Tamegai, F Kudo, H Kuriki… - The Journal of …, 2000 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Butirosin-biosynthetic GeneCluster from Bacillus circulans Page 1 VOL.53 NO. 10, OCT.2000
THE JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS Butirosin-biosynthetic GeneCluster from Bacillus circulans …

Isolation and characterization of the tobramycin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces tenebrarius

MK Kharel, DB Basnet, HC Lee, K Liou… - FEMS microbiology …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The biosynthetic gene cluster for tobramycin, a 2-deoxystreptamine-containing
aminoglycoside antibiotic, was isolated from Streptomyces tenebrarius ATCC 17920. A …

A gene cluster for biosynthesis of kanamycin from Streptomyces kanamyceticus: comparison with gentamicin biosynthetic gene cluster

MK Kharel, B Subba, DB Basnet, JS Woo… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2004 - Elsevier
Gene clusters for the biosynthesis of kanamycin (Km) and gentamicin (Gm) were isolated
from the genomic libraries of Streptomyces kanamyceticus and Micromonospora …