Same substrate, many reactions: oxygen activation in flavoenzymes

E Romero, JR Gómez Castellanos, G Gadda… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over time, organisms have evolved strategies to cope with the abundance of dioxygen on
Earth. Oxygen-utilizing enzymes tightly control the reactions involving O2 mostly by …

Enzymatic halogenation and dehalogenation reactions: pervasive and mechanistically diverse

V Agarwal, ZD Miles, JM Winter, AS Eustáquio… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Naturally produced halogenated compounds are ubiquitous across all domains of life where
they perform a multitude of biological functions and adopt a diversity of chemical structures …

Enzyme function prediction using contrastive learning

T Yu, H Cui, JC Li, Y Luo, G Jiang, H Zhao - Science, 2023 - science.org
Enzyme function annotation is a fundamental challenge, and numerous computational tools
have been developed. However, most of these tools cannot accurately predict functional …

Mechanism-guided tunnel engineering to increase the efficiency of a flavin-dependent halogenase

K Prakinee, A Phintha, S Visitsatthawong, N Lawan… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Although flavin-dependent halogenases (FDHs) are attractive for C–H bond activation, their
applications are limited due to low turnover and stability. We have previously shown that …

Marine natural products

JW Blunt, BR Copp, RA Keyzers, MHG Munro… - Natural Product …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2014. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2015, 32, 116–211 This review covers the
literature published in 2014 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 1116 citations (753 for …

Development of halogenase enzymes for use in synthesis

J Latham, E Brandenburger, SA Shepherd… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nature has evolved halogenase enzymes to regioselectively halogenate a diverse range of
biosynthetic precursors, with the halogens introduced often having a profound effect on the …

[HTML][HTML] Flavoprotein monooxygenases: versatile biocatalysts

CE Paul, D Eggerichs, AH Westphal, D Tischler… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flavoprotein monooxygenases (FPMOs) are single-or two-component enzymes that
catalyze a diverse set of chemo-, regio-and enantioselective oxyfunctionalization reactions …

Halogenases: a palette of emerging opportunities for synthetic biology–synthetic chemistry and C–H functionalisation

C Crowe, S Molyneux, SV Sharma, Y Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The enzymatic generation of carbon–halogen bonds is a powerful strategy used by both
nature and synthetic chemists to tune the bioactivity, bioavailability and reactivity of …

Current applications of Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction in the total synthesis of natural products: an update

A Taheri Kal Koshvandi, MM Heravi… - Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Suzuki‐Miyaura Coupling Reaction (SMCR) has been extensively used in the total synthesis
of natural products. We underscored these achievements in a report published in …

Marine algae colorants: Antioxidant, anti-diabetic properties and applications in food industry

T Imchen, KS Singh - Algal Research, 2023 - Elsevier
In numerous food businesses, natural pigments are frequently utilized as food colorants.
Colorants give nutritional value to food items in addition to improving its appeal …