The year 2017 marks the twentieth anniversary of terpenoid cyclase structural biology: a trio
of terpenoid cyclase structures reported together in 1997 were the first to set the foundation …

The review by Christianson, published in 2017 on the twentieth anniversary of the
emergence of the field, summarizes the foundational discoveries and key advances in …

Limonene and its derivatives have great market potential with diverse applications in food,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, etc. Commercial production of limonene and its derivatives …

Background Limonene is a widely used monoterpene in the production of food,
pharmaceuticals, biofuels, etc. The objective of this work was to engineer Rhodosporidium …

Isoprenoids, also known as terpenes or terpenoids, represent a large family of natural
products composed of five‐carbon isopentenyl diphosphate or its isomer dimethylallyl …

Chiral urea derivatives are shown to catalyze enantioselective tail-to-head cyclization
reactions of neryl chloride analogues. Experimental data are consistent with a mechanism in …

Sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) exhibits limited genetic diversity and high susceptibility to
Huanglongbing (HLB). Breeding HLB-tolerant orange-like hybrids is in dire need. However …

Terpenoids form the largest and stereochemically most diverse class of natural products,
and there is considerable interest in producing these by biocatalysis with whole cells or …

Plant monoterpenoids with structural diversities have extensive applications in food,
cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and biofuels. Due to the strong dependence on the …

Botanical insecticides are the origin of all insecticidal compounds. They have been widely
used to control pests in crops for a long time. Currently, the commercial production of …