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 …
Developing synthetically useful enzymatic reactions that are not known in biochemistry and organic chemistry is an important challenge in biocatalysis. Through the synergistic merger …
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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …