Cytochrome P450 enzymes in fungal natural product biosynthesis

X Zhang, J Guo, F Cheng, S Li - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2015 to the end of 2020 Fungal-derived polyketides, non-ribosomal peptides,
terpenoids and their hybrids contribute significantly to the chemical space of total natural …

Oxidative cyclization in natural product biosynthesis

MC Tang, Y Zou, K Watanabe, CT Walsh… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Oxidative cyclizations are important transformations that occur widely during natural product
biosynthesis. The transformations from acyclic precursors to cyclized products can afford …

Biosynthesis of fungal meroterpenoids

Y Matsuda, I Abe - Natural product reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to September 2015 Meroterpenoids are hybrid natural products that partially
originate from the terpenoid pathway. The meroterpenoids derived from fungi display quite …

Terpene synthases in disguise: enzymology, structure, and opportunities of non-canonical terpene synthases

JD Rudolf, CY Chang - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to July 2019 Terpene synthases (TSs) are responsible for generating much of
the structural diversity found in the superfamily of terpenoid natural products. These elegant …

[HTML][HTML] Meroterpenoids: A comprehensive update insight on structural diversity and biology

M Nazir, M Saleem, MI Tousif, MA Anwar, F Surup, I Ali… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Meroterpenoids are secondary metabolites formed due to mixed biosynthetic pathways
which are produced in part from a terpenoid co-substrate. These mixed biosynthetically …

Synthetic biology based construction of biological activity-related library of fungal decalin-containing diterpenoid pyrones

K Tsukada, S Shinki, A Kaneko, K Murakami… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A synthetic biology method based on heterologous biosynthesis coupled with genome
mining is a promising approach for increasing the opportunities to rationally access natural …

Complete biosynthetic pathway of anditomin: nature's sophisticated synthetic route to a complex fungal meroterpenoid

Y Matsuda, T Wakimoto, T Mori… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Anditomin and its precursors, andilesins, are fungal meroterpenoids isolated from
Aspergillus variecolor and have unique, highly oxygenated chemical structures with a …

Penicillium chrysogenum, a Vintage Model with a Cutting-Edge Profile in Biotechnology

F Fierro, I Vaca, NI Castillo, RO García-Rico, R Chávez - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
The discovery of penicillin entailed a decisive breakthrough in medicine. No other medical
advance has ever had the same impact in the clinical practise. The fungus Penicillium …

Engineering of the Filamentous Fungus Penicillium chrysogenum as Cell Factory for Natural Products

F Guzmán-Chávez, RD Zwahlen… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Penicillium chrysogenum (renamed P. rubens) is the most studied member of a family of
more than 350 Penicillium species that constitute the genus. Since the discovery of penicillin …

Novofumigatonin biosynthesis involves a non-heme iron-dependent endoperoxide isomerase for orthoester formation

Y Matsuda, T Bai, CBW Phippen, CS Nødvig… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Novofumigatonin (1), isolated from the fungus Aspergillus novofumigatus, is a
heavily oxygenated meroterpenoid containing a unique orthoester moiety. Despite the wide …