Potential roles of gut microbes in biotransformation of natural products: An overview

Y Zhao, X Zhong, J Yan, C Sun, X Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Natural products have been extensively applied in clinical practice, characterized by multi-
component and multi-target, many pharmacodynamic substances, complex action …

Outer-sphere effects on the O2 sensitivity, catalytic bias and catalytic reversibility of hydrogenases

C Léger, V Fourmond, A Fasano - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The comparison of homologous metalloenzymes, in which the same inorganic active site is
surrounded by a variable protein matrix, has demonstrated that residues that are remote …

Reversible Alkyl-Group Migration between Iron and Sulfur in [Fe4S4] Clusters

M Ye, AC Brown, DLM Suess - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthetic [Fe4S4] clusters with Fe–R groups (R= alkyl/benzyl) are shown to release organic
radicals on an [Fe4S4] 3+–R/[Fe4S4] 2+ redox couple, the same that has been proposed for …

Exploiting molecular symmetry to quantitatively map the excited-state landscape of iron–sulfur clusters

BA Skeel, DLM Suess - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cuboidal [Fe4S4] clusters are ubiquitous cofactors in biological redox chemistry. In the
[Fe4S4] 1+ state, pairwise spin coupling gives rise to six arrangements of the Fe valences …

Properties of the iron-sulfur cluster electron transfer relay in an [FeFe]-hydrogenase that is tuned for H2 oxidation catalysis

EC Kisgeropoulos, JH Artz, M Blahut, JW Peters… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - ASBMB
[FeFe]-hydrogenases catalyze the reversible oxidation of H 2 from electrons and protons at
an organometallic active site cofactor named the H-cluster. In addition to the H-cluster, most …

Site-Differentiated Iron–Sulfur Cluster Ligation Affects Flavin-Based Electron Bifurcation Activity

CE Wise, AE Ledinina, CE Lubner - Metabolites, 2022 - mdpi.com
Electron bifurcation is an elegant mechanism of biological energy conversion that effectively
couples three different physiologically relevant substrates. As such, enzymes that perform …

Characterization of ferredoxins involved in electron transfer pathways for nitrogen fixation implicates differences in electronic structure in tuning 2 [4Fe4S] Fd activity

NM Lewis, EC Kisgeropoulos, CE Lubner… - Journal of Inorganic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ferredoxins (Fds) are small proteins which shuttle electrons to pathways like biological
nitrogen fixation. Physical properties tune the reactivity of Fds with different pathways, but …

The Cryptic Nature of Fe-S Clusters: A Case Study of the Hepatitis B HBx Oncoprotein

T Quist, J Chen, A MacNeil, ME Pandelia - Inorganics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Fe-S clusters are ubiquitous inorganic cofactors found in proteins across all domains of life,
including viruses. Their prevalence stems from their unique redox and structural plasticity …

[HTML][HTML] H2 production under stress:[FeFe]‑hydrogenases reveal strong stability in high pressure environments

K Edenharter, MW Jaworek, V Engelbrecht… - Biophysical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrogenases are a diverse group of metalloenzymes that catalyze the conversion of H 2
into protons and electrons and the reverse reaction. A subgroup is formed by the [FeFe] …

Azo‐Cyanamide Bridged Dinuclear Iron Complexes Exhibiting no Electronic Coupling but Moderate Magnetic Coupling between the two Iron Centers

ZD Mao, JH Fu, Y He, Y Song, BC Tan… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate the effect of long‐distance organic ligand on electronic coupling between
metallic atoms, the mononuclear and dinuclear complexes [Cp (dppe) Fe (apc)](1),[{Cp …