The year 2017 marks the twentieth anniversary of terpenoid cyclase structural biology: a trio
of terpenoid cyclase structures reported together in 1997 were the first to set the foundation …

Covering: up to July 2011 Sesquiterpene synthases catalyse the metal dependent turnover
of farnesyl diphosphate to generate a class of natural products characterised by an …

Vectors often perform better on plants infected with pathogens, and this promotes the spread
of pathogens. However, few studies have examined how plant defensive compounds …

Background Terpenes are an important and extremely versatile class of secondary
metabolites that are commercially used in the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics sectors …

The Basidiomycota fungi represent a diverse source of natural products, particularly the
sesquiterpenoids. Recently, genome sequencing, genome mining, and the subsequent …

Terpene synthases are responsible for a large diversity of terpene carbon skeletons found in
nature. The multiproduct sesquiterpene synthase MtTPS5 isolated from Medicago truncatula …

The prezizane‐type sesquiterpene agarozizanol B was synthesized employing a
photochemical cascade reaction as the key step. Starting from a readily available 1 …

Recombinant (+)-δ-cadinene synthase (DCS) from Gossypium arboreum catalyzes the metal-
dependent cyclization of (E, E)-farnesyl diphosphate (FDP) to the cadinane sesquiterpene δ …

Abstract Background Eremophila R. Br.(Scrophulariaceae) is a diverse genus of plants with
species distributed across semi-arid and arid Australia. It is an ecologically important genus …

Three sesquiterpene cyclases from Streptomyces scabei 87.22, Streptomyces venezuelae
ATCC 10712 and Streptomyces clavuligerus ATCC 27064 were characterised and their …