Efficient heterologous expression of cytochrome P450 enzymes in microorganisms for the biosynthesis of natural products

B Hu, X Zhao, E Wang, J Zhou, J Li… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Natural products, a chemically and structurally diverse class of molecules, possess a wide
spectrum of biological activities, have been used therapeutically for millennia, and have …

Natural compounds as pharmaceuticals: the key role of cytochromes P450 reactivity

G Di Nardo, G Gilardi - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2020 - cell.com
The design of drugs from natural products is a re-emerging area due to the need for
bioactive compounds. The exploitation of natural products and their derivatives obtained by …

The molecular basis and enzyme engineering strategies for improvement of coupling efficiency in cytochrome P450s

S Meng, Y Ji, LL Zhu, GV Dhoke, MD Davari… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytochrome P450s are heme-thiolate enzymes that have been broadly applied in
pharmaceutical and biosynthesis because of their efficient oxidation at inert carbons …

Biochemical features of dye‐decolorizing peroxidases: current impact on lignin degradation

G Catucci, F Valetti, SJ Sadeghi… - Biotechnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dye‐decolorizing peroxidases (DyP) were originally discovered in fungi for their ability to
decolorize several different industrial dyes. DyPs catalyze the oxidation of a variety of …

The thin line between monooxygenases and peroxygenases. P450s, UPOs, MMOs, and LPMOs: A brick to bridge fields of expertise

D Decembrino, D Cannella - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Many scientific fields, although driven by similar purposes and dealing with similar
technologies, often appear so isolated and far from each other that even the vocabularies to …

A promiscuous bacterial P450: The unparalleled diversity of BM3 in pharmaceutical metabolism

S Thistlethwaite, LN Jeffreys, HM Girvan… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
CYP102A1 (BM3) is a catalytically self-sufficient flavocytochrome fusion protein isolated
from Bacillus megaterium, which displays similar metabolic capabilities to many drug …

Engineered human CYP2C9 and its main polymorphic variants for bioelectrochemical measurements of catalytic response

P Panicco, S Castrignanò, SJ Sadeghi, G Di Nardo… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polymorphism is an important aspect in drug metabolism responsible for different individual
response to drug dosage, often leading to adverse drug reactions. Here human CYP2C9 as …

Molecular Lego of human cytochrome P450: The key role of heme domain flexibility for the activity of the chimeric proteins

G Catucci, A Ciaramella, G Di Nardo, C Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The cytochrome P450 superfamily are heme-thiolate enzymes able to carry out
monooxygenase reactions. Several studies have demonstrated the feasibility of using a …

Self-sufficient class VII cytochromes P450: from full-length structure to synthetic biology applications

D Correddu, G Di Nardo, G Gilardi - Trends in Biotechnology, 2021 - cell.com
Members of class VII cytochromes P450 are catalytically self-sufficient enzymes containing a
phthalate dioxygenase reductase-like domain fused to the P450 catalytic domain. Among …

Alternative electron sources for cytochrome P450s catalytic cycle: biosensing and biosynthetic application

VV Shumyantseva, PI Koroleva, TV Bulko… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The functional significance of cytochrome P450s (CYP) enzymes is their ability to catalyze
the biotransformation of xenobiotics and endogenous compounds. P450 enzymes catalyze …