Amazing diversity in biochemical roles of Fe (II)/2-oxoglutarate oxygenases

CQ Herr, RP Hausinger - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Since their discovery in the 1960s, the family of Fe (II)/2-oxoglutarate-dependent
oxygenases has undergone a tremendous expansion to include enzymes catalyzing a vast …

Recent examples of α-ketoglutarate-dependent mononuclear non-haem iron enzymes in natural product biosyntheses

SS Gao, N Naowarojna, R Cheng, X Liu… - Natural product reports, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2018 α-Ketoglutarate (αKG, also known as 2-oxoglutarate)-dependent
mononuclear non-haem iron (αKG-NHFe) enzymes catalyze a wide range of biochemical …

Novofumigatonin biosynthesis involves a non-heme iron-dependent endoperoxide isomerase for orthoester formation

Y Matsuda, T Bai, CBW Phippen, CS Nødvig… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Novofumigatonin (1), isolated from the fungus Aspergillus novofumigatus, is a
heavily oxygenated meroterpenoid containing a unique orthoester moiety. Despite the wide …

Structure of the Oxygen, Pyridoxal Phosphate-Dependent Capuramycin Biosynthetic Protein Cap15

PG Daniel-Ivad, S Van Lanen, KS Ryan - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes able to use oxygen as a co-substrate have
emerged in multiple protein families. Here, we use crystallography to solve the 2.40 Å …

Pyridoxal-5′-phosphate as an oxygenase cofactor: Discovery of a carboxamide-forming, α-amino acid monooxygenase-decarboxylase

Y Huang, X Liu, Z Cui, D Wiegmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Capuramycins are antimycobacterial antibiotics that consist of a modified nucleoside named
uridine-5′-carboxamide (CarU). Previous biochemical studies have revealed that CarU is …

Identification and characterization of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of pyrimidine nucleoside antibiotics

M McErlean, X Liu, Z Cui, B Gust… - Natural product reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to September 2020 Hundreds of nucleoside-based natural products have been
isolated from various microorganisms, several of which have been utilized in agriculture as …

Enzymatic synthesis of the ribosylated glycyl-uridine disaccharide core of peptidyl nucleoside antibiotics

Z Cui, X Liu, J Overbay, W Cai, X Wang… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Muraymycins belong to a family of nucleoside antibiotics that have a distinctive disaccharide
core consisting of 5-amino-5-deoxyribofuranose (ADR) attached to 6′-N-alkyl-5′-C …

Biosynthesis and Genome Mining Potentials of Nucleoside Natural Products

Y Du, A Thanapipatsiri, K Yokoyama - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleoside natural products show diverse biological activities and serve as leads for various
application purposes, including human and veterinary medicine and agriculture. Studies in …

Caprazamycins: Biosynthesis and structure activity relationship studies

F Wiker, N Hauck, S Grond, B Gust - International Journal of Medical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cell wall biosynthesis represents a valid target for antibacterial action but only a limited
number of chemical structure classes selectively interact with specific enzymes or protein …

Biosynthetic and synthetic strategies for assembling capuramycin-type antituberculosis antibiotics

AL Biecker, X Liu, JS Thorson, Z Yang, SG Van Lanen - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has recently surpassed HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of
death by a single infectious agent. The standard therapeutic regimen against tuberculosis …