Recent trends in biocatalysis

D Yi, T Bayer, CPS Badenhorst, S Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Biocatalysis has undergone revolutionary progress in the past century. Benefited by the
integration of multidisciplinary technologies, natural enzymatic reactions are constantly …

Chemical reactivity under nanoconfinement

AB Grommet, M Feller, R Klajn - Nature nanotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
Confining molecules can fundamentally change their chemical and physical properties.
Confinement effects are considered instrumental at various stages of the origins of life, and …

A review of the microbial production of bioactive natural products and biologics

JV Pham, MA Yilma, A Feliz, MT Majid… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A variety of organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and plants, produce secondary metabolites,
also known as natural products. Natural products have been a prolific source and an …

Natural product discovery: past, present, and future

L Katz, RH Baltz - Journal of Industrial Microbiology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Microorganisms have provided abundant sources of natural products which have been
developed as commercial products for human medicine, animal health, and plant crop …

Modular enzyme assembly for enhanced cascade biocatalysis and metabolic flux

W Kang, T Ma, M Liu, J Qu, Z Liu, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Enzymatic reactions in living cells are highly dynamic but simultaneously tightly regulated.
Enzyme engineers seek to construct multienzyme complexes to prevent intermediate …

Biosynthesis of polyketides by trans-AT polyketide synthases

EJN Helfrich, J Piel - Natural product reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering 2000 to June 2015 This review discusses the biosynthesis of natural products that
are generated by trans-AT polyketide synthases, a family of catalytically versatile enzymes …

Enzymology of assembly line synthesis by modular polyketide synthases

M Grininger - Nature Chemical Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) run catalytic reactions over dozens of steps in a highly
orchestrated manner. To accomplish this synthetic feat, they form megadalton multienzyme …

The architectures of iterative type I PKS and FAS

DA Herbst, CA Townsend, T Maier - Natural product reports, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to mid of 2018 Type I fatty acid synthases (FASs) are giant multienzymes
catalyzing all steps of the biosynthesis of fatty acids from acetyl-and malonyl-CoA by iterative …

Structures of two distinct conformations of holo-non-ribosomal peptide synthetases

EJ Drake, BR Miller, C Shi, JT Tarrasch, JA Sundlov… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Many important natural products are produced by multidomain non-ribosomal peptide
synthetases (NRPSs),,,. During synthesis, intermediates are covalently bound to integrated …

Mapping the catalytic conformations of an assembly-line polyketide synthase module

DP Cogan, K Zhang, X Li, S Li, GD Pintilie, SH Roh… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Assembly-line polyketide synthases, such as the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS),
are large enzyme factories prized for their ability to produce specific and complex polyketide …