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 …

Mononuclear non-heme iron enzymes with the 2-His-1-carboxylate facial triad: recent developments in enzymology and modeling studies

PCA Bruijnincx, G van Koten… - Chemical Society …, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Iron-containing enzymes are one of Nature's main means of effecting key biological
transformations. The mononuclear non-heme iron oxygenases and oxidases have received …

Structural studies on 2-oxoglutarate oxygenases and related double-stranded β-helix fold proteins

IJ Clifton, MA McDonough, D Ehrismann… - Journal of inorganic …, 2006 - Elsevier
Mononuclear non-heme ferrous iron dependent oxygenases and oxidases constitute an
extended enzyme family that catalyze a wide range of oxidation reactions. The largest …

Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and alternative approaches to overcome AMR

CL Moo, SK Yang, K Yusoff, M Ajat… - Current drug …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Antimicrobials are useful compounds intended to eradicate or stop the growth of harmful
microorganisms. The sustained increase in the rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) …

Heterologous production of fosfomycin and identification of the minimal biosynthetic gene cluster

RD Woodyer, Z Shao, PM Thomas, NL Kelleher… - Chemistry & biology, 2006 - cell.com
Fosfomycin is a clinically utilized, highly effective antibiotic, which is active against
methicillin-and vancomycin-resistant pathogens. Here we report the cloning and …

Biosynthesis and structure of aeruginoside 126A and 126B, cyanobacterial peptide glycosides bearing a 2-carboxy-6-hydroxyoctahydroindole moiety

K Ishida, G Christiansen, WY Yoshida, R Kurmayer… - Chemistry & biology, 2007 - cell.com
Aeruginosins represent a group of peptide metabolites isolated from various cyanobacterial
genera and from marine sponges that potently inhibit different types of serine proteases …

Pathway retrofitting yields insights into the biosynthesis of anthraquinone-fused enediynes

GL Ma, HT Tran, ZJ Low, H Candra… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Anthraquinone-fused enediynes (AQEs) are renowned for their distinctive molecular
architecture, reactive enediyne warhead, and potent anticancer activity. Although the first …

New insight into the mechanism of methyl transfer during the biosynthesis of fosfomycin

WA Avan der Donk - Chemical communications, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
(1R, 2S)-Epoxypropylphosphonic acid, also known as fosfomycin, is a clinically utilized,
highly effective antibiotic that has low toxicity and is effective against methicillin and …

Antimicrobials in urogenital infections

FME Wagenlehner, B Wullt, G Perletti - International journal of antimicrobial …, 2011 - Elsevier
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) and male genital infections are amongst the most prevalent
infections. A prudent antibiotic policy therefore has a large impact on society. The clinical …

Structure-based phylogeny as a diagnostic for functional characterization of proteins with a cupin fold

G Agarwal, M Rajavel, B Gopal, N Srinivasan - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background The members of cupin superfamily exhibit large variations in their sequences,
functions, organization of domains, quaternary associations and the nature of bound metal …