Biochemical and structural characterization of a novel bacterial manganese‐dependent hydroxynitrile lyase

I Hajnal, A Łyskowski, U Hanefeld, K Gruber… - The FEBS …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroxynitrile lyases (HNL s), which catalyse the decomposition of cyanohydrins, are found
mainly in plants. In vitro, they are able to catalyse the synthesis of enantiopure cyanohydrins …

Biosynthesis of Cytosporones in Leotiomycetous Filamentous Fungi

L Li, W Zhong, H Liu, P Espinosa-Artiles… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polyketides with the isochroman-3-one pharmacophore are rare among fungal natural
products as their biosynthesis requires an unorthodox S-type aromatic ring cyclization …

Effects of a Pirin-like protein on strain growth and spinosad biosynthesis in Saccharopolyspora spinosa

L Cao, Z Zhu, H Qin, Z Xia, J Xie, X Li, J Rang… - Applied Microbiology …, 2023 - Springer
Pirin family proteins perform a variety of biological functions and widely exist in all living
organisms. A few studies have shown that Pirin family proteins may be involved in the …

Structural and Biochemical Insights into Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Cleavage by Cofactor-Bound DddK from the Prolific Marine Bacterium Pelagibacter

NJ Schnicker, SM De Silva, JD Todd, M Dey - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Enormous amounts of the organic osmolyte dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) are
produced in marine environments where bacterial DMSP lyases cleave it, yielding acrylate …

Highest Recorded N–O Stretching Frequency for 6-Coordinate {Fe-NO}7 Complexes: An Iron Nitrosyl Model for His3 Active Sites

J Li, A Banerjee, PL Pawlak, WW Brennessel… - Inorganic …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis, structure, and reactivity of [Fe (T1Et4iPrIP)(OTf) 2][1; T1Et4iPrIP= tris
(1-ethyl-4-isopropylimidazolyl) phosphine]. Compound 1 reacts reversibly with nitric oxide to …

A well-defined osmium–cupin complex: hyperstable artificial osmium peroxygenase

N Fujieda, T Nakano, Y Taniguchi… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Thermally stable TM1459 cupin superfamily protein from Thermotoga maritima was
repurposed as an osmium (Os) peroxygenase by metal-substitution strategy employing the …

Enzymology of microbial dimethylsulfoniopropionate catabolism

M Dey - Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology, 2017 - Elsevier
The biochemistry of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) catabolism is reviewed. The
microbes that catalyze the reactions central to DMSP catabolic pathways are described, and …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery of a novel (R)-selective bacterial hydroxynitrile lyase from Acidobacterium capsulatum

R Wiedner, M Gruber-Khadjawi, H Schwab… - Computational and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Hydroxynitrile lyases (HNLs) are powerful carbon–carbon bond forming enzymes. The
reverse of their natural reaction–the stereoselective addition of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) to …

New mechanistic insight from substrate-and product-bound structures of the metal-dependent dimethylsulfoniopropionate lyase DddQ

AE Brummett, M Dey - Biochemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
The marine microbial catabolism of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) by the lyase
pathway liberates∼ 300 million tons of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) per year, which plays a major …

Structural identification of the lipopolysaccharide‐binding capability of a cupin‐family protein from Helicobacter pylori

DW Sim, JH Kim, HY Kim, JH Jang, WC Lee… - FEBS …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We solved the crystal structure of a functionally uncharacterized protein, HP 0902, from
Helicobacter pylori. Its structure demonstrated an all‐β cupin fold that cannot bind metal ions …