[HTML][HTML] Biocatalysis

EL Bell, W Finnigan, SP France, AP Green… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biocatalysis has become an important aspect of modern organic synthesis, both in
academia and across the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Its success has been …

Expanding chemistry through in vitro and in vivo biocatalysis

EN Kissman, MB Sosa, DC Millar, EJ Koleski… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Living systems contain a vast network of metabolic reactions, providing a wealth of enzymes
and cells as potential biocatalysts for chemical processes. The properties of protein and cell …

Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis

L Cheng, D Li, BK Mai, Z Bo, L Cheng, P Liu, Y Yang - Science, 2023 - science.org
Developing synthetically useful enzymatic reactions that are not known in biochemistry and
organic chemistry is an important challenge in biocatalysis. Through the synergistic merger …

Genome mining for unknown–unknown natural products

DA Yee, K Niwa, B Perlatti, M Chen, Y Li… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome mining of biosynthetic pathways with no identifiable core enzymes can lead to
discovery of the so-called unknown (biosynthetic route)–unknown (molecular structure) …

Deciphering chemical logic of fungal natural product biosynthesis through heterologous expression and genome mining

CY Chiang, M Ohashi, Y Tang - Natural product reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2022 Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene
clusters (BGCs) has become a widely used tool for genome mining of cryptic pathways …

β-NAD as a building block in natural product biosynthesis

L Barra, T Awakawa, K Shirai, Z Hu, G Bashiri, I Abe - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstratct β-Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (β-NAD) is a pivotal metabolite for all living
organisms and functions as a diffusible electron acceptor and carrier in the catabolic arms of …

Infection leaves a genetic and functional mark on the gut population of a commensal bacterium

C Tawk, B Lim, NA Bencivenga-Barry, HJ Lees… - Cell host & …, 2023 - cell.com
Gastrointestinal infection changes microbiome composition and gene expression. In this
study, we demonstrate that enteric infection also promotes rapid genetic adaptation in a gut …

Data science-driven analysis of substrate-permissive diketopiperazine reverse prenyltransferase NotF: applications in protein engineering and cascade biocatalytic …

SP Kelly, VV Shende, AR Flynn, Q Dan… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Prenyltransfer is an early-stage carbon–hydrogen bond (C–H) functionalization prevalent in
the biosynthesis of a diverse array of biologically active bacterial, fungal, plant, and …

Biosynthesis of Mycotoxin Fusaric Acid and Application of a PLP-Dependent Enzyme for Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Substituted l-Pipecolic Acids

Y Hai, M Chen, A Huang, Y Tang - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fusaric acid (FA) is a well-known mycotoxin that plays an important role in plant pathology.
The biosynthetic gene cluster for FA has been identified, but the biosynthetic pathway …

The structural basis of pyridoxal-5′-phosphate-dependent β-NAD-alkylating enzymes

T Awakawa, T Mori, L Barra, Y Ahmed, R Ushimaru… - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
SbzP is a unique pyridoxal-5′-phosphate-dependent enzyme, which catalyses a [3+ 2]
annulation between the pyridinium ring of β-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (β-NAD) and …