Biosynthesis of DNA-alkylating antitumor natural products

QY Nie, Y Hu, XF Hou, GL Tang - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA-alkylating natural products play an important role in drug development due to their
significant antitumor activities. They usually show high affinity with DNA through different …

An interstrand DNA crosslink glycosylase aids Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis

DE Kunkle, Y Cai, BF Eichman, EP Skaar - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
Maintenance of DNA integrity is essential to all forms of life. DNA damage generated by
reaction with genotoxic chemicals results in deleterious mutations, genome instability, and …

Yatakemycin biosynthesis requires two deoxyribonucleases for toxin self-resistance

J Dorival, H Yuan, AS Walker, GL Tang… - RSC Chemical …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
The highly active natural product yatakemycin (YTM) from Streptomyces sp. TP-A0356 is a
potent DNA damaging agent with antimicrobial and antitumor properties. The YTM …

Characterization of Bacterial DNA Glycosylases Involved in Interstrand Crosslink Repair and Antibiotic Resistance

NP Bradley - 2022 - search.proquest.com
DNA is a fundamental biomolecule of life which stores the genetic information of organisms
and drives many of the evolutionary processes in nature. Despite this, DNA is subject to …