Unrivalled diversity: the many roles and reactions of bacterial cytochromes P450 in secondary metabolism

A Greule, JE Stok, JJ De Voss, MJ Cryle - Natural product reports, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 up to 2018 The cytochromes P450 (P450s) are a superfamily of heme-
containing monooxygenases that perform diverse catalytic roles in many species, including …

Glycosyltransferases: mechanisms and applications in natural product development

DM Liang, JH Liu, H Wu, BB Wang, HJ Zhu… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Glycosylation reactions mainly catalyzed by glycosyltransferases (Gts) occur almost
everywhere in the biosphere, and always play crucial roles in vital processes. In order to …

Cytochromes P450 for natural product biosynthesis in Streptomyces: sequence, structure, and function

JD Rudolf, CY Chang, M Ma, B Shen - Natural Product Reports, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to January 2017 Cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s) are some of the most
exquisite and versatile biocatalysts found in nature. In addition to their well-known roles in …

Natural‐product sugar biosynthesis and enzymatic glycodiversification

CJ Thibodeaux, CE Melançon III… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Many biologically active small‐molecule natural products produced by microorganisms
derive their activities from sugar substituents. Changing the structures of these sugars can …

Enzymatic methods for glyco (diversification/randomization) of drugs and small molecules

RW Gantt, P Peltier-Pain, JS Thorson - Natural product reports, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the end of May 2011 Glyco (randomization/diversification) is a term that
encompasses strategies to diversify a core drug scaffold via enzymatic glycosylation to …

Post-PKS tailoring steps in natural product-producing actinomycetes from the perspective of combinatorial biosynthesis

C Olano, C Méndez, JA Salas - Natural product reports, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2002 to September 2009 In recent years, a number of gene clusters involved in
the biosynthesis of polyketide compounds have been characterized and the genes have …

Enzymatic tools for engineering natural product glycosylation

S Blanchard, JS Thorson - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2006 - Elsevier
Glycosylated natural products have served as reliable platforms for the development of
many existing front-line drugs. In an effort to explore the contribution of the sugar …

Engineering the glycosylation of natural products in actinomycetes

JA Salas, C Méndez - TRENDS in Microbiology, 2007 - cell.com
Bioactive natural products are frequently glycosylated with saccharide chains of different
length, in which the sugars contribute to specific interactions with the biological target …

Neoglycorandomization and chemoenzymatic glycorandomization: two complementary tools for natural product diversification

JM Langenhan, BR Griffith… - Journal of natural products, 2005 - ACS Publications
In an effort to explore the contribution of the sugar constituents of pharmaceutically relevant
glycosylated natural products, chemists have developed glycosylation methods that are …

'Sweetening'natural products via glycorandomization

BR Griffith, JM Langenhan, JS Thorson - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2005 - Elsevier
In an effort to explore the contribution of the sugar constituents of pharmaceutically relevant
glycosylated natural products, chemists have developed glycosylation methods for the …