Enzymatic asymmetric synthesis of chiral amino acids

YP Xue, CH Cao, YG Zheng - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral amino acids are extensively applied in the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic,
agricultural, and feedstuff industries. The development of synthetic methodologies for …

New generation of biocatalysts for organic synthesis

BM Nestl, SC Hammer, BA Nebel… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The use of enzymes as catalysts for the preparation of novel compounds has received
steadily increasing attention over the past few years. High demands are placed on the …

Synthetic and therapeutic applications of ammonia-lyases and aminomutases

F Parmeggiani, NJ Weise, ST Ahmed… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ammonia-lyases and aminomutases are mechanistically and structurally diverse enzymes
which catalyze the deamination and/or isomerization of amino acids in nature by cleaving or …

Rosmarinic acid: new aspects

M Petersen - Phytochemistry Reviews, 2013 - Springer
Rosmarinic acid (RA) is an ester of caffeic acid and 3, 4-dihydroxyphenyllactic acid which is
one of the most frequently occurring caffeic acid esters in the plant kingdom besides …

A high‐quality genome assembly of Jasminum sambac provides insight into floral trait formation and Oleaceae genome evolution

S Xu, Y Ding, J Sun, Z Zhang, Z Wu… - Molecular ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As one of the most economically significant Oleaceae family members, Jasminum sambac is
renowned for its distinct sweet, heady fragrance. Using Illumina reads, Nanopore long …

Priming ammonia lyases and aminomutases for industrial and therapeutic applications

MM Heberling, B Wu, S Bartsch, DB Janssen - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Ammonia lyases (AL) and aminomutases (AM) are emerging in green synthetic routes to
chiral amines and an AL is being explored as an enzyme therapeutic for treating …

The early stages of taxol biosynthesis: an interim report on the synthesis and identification of early pathway metabolites

J Guerra-Bubb, R Croteau, RM Williams - Natural product reports, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1966 to 2012 The biosynthesis of the anti-cancer drug taxol (paclitaxel) has
required the collaborative efforts of several research groups to tackle the synthesis and …

In-Depth Sequence–Function Characterization Reveals Multiple Pathways to Enhance Enzymatic Activity

VD Trivedi, TC Chappell, NB Krishna, A Shetty… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Deep mutational scanning (DMS) has recently emerged as a powerful method to study
protein sequence–function relationships but is not well-explored as a guide to enzyme …

Mapping the Hydrophobic Substrate Binding Site of Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase from Petroselinum crispum

EZA Nagy, SD Tork, PA Lang, A Filip, FD Irimie… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Modification of the hydrophobic binding pocket of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase from
Petroselinum crispum (Pc PAL) enables increased activity and selectivity toward …

Substrate tunnel engineering aided by X-ray crystallography and functional dynamics swaps the function of MIO-enzymes

Z Bata, Z Molnar, E Madaras, B Molnar… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The enzyme family harboring the post-translationally formed 5-methylene-3, 5-dihydro-4 H-
imidazol-4-one (MIO) catalytic residue comprises both aromatic amino acid ammonia-lyases …