Charting the evolution of chemoenzymatic strategies in the syntheses of complex natural products

CN Stout, NM Wasfy, F Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bolstered by recent advances in bioinformatics, genetics, and enzyme engineering, the field
of chemoenzymatic synthesis has enjoyed a rapid increase in popularity and utility. This …

New reaction pathways by integrating chemo-and biocatalysis

L Bering, J Thompson, J Micklefield - Trends in Chemistry, 2022 - cell.com
The combination of chemo-and biocatalysis in one pot (integrated catalysis) is a powerful
approach to develop new routes towards important products under mild and environmentally …

Merging enzymatic and synthetic chemistry with computational synthesis planning

I Levin, M Liu, CA Voigt, CW Coley - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Synthesis planning programs trained on chemical reaction data can design efficient routes
to new molecules of interest, but are limited in their ability to leverage rare chemical …

Chemical modifications for a next generation of nucleic acid aptamers

KY Chan, AB Kinghorn, M Hollenstein… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the past three decades, in vitro systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment
(SELEX) has yielded many aptamers for translational applications in both research and …

Chemoenzymatic Syntheses of Fluorine-18-Labeled Disaccharides from [18F] FDG Yield Potent Sensors of Living Bacteria In Vivo

AM Sorlin, M López-Álvarez, SJ Rabbitt… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chemoenzymatic techniques have been applied extensively to pharmaceutical
development, most effectively when routine synthetic methods fail. The regioselective and …

Stereocontrolled radical bicyclizations of oxygenated precursors enable short syntheses of oxidized abietane diterpenoids

D Vrubliauskas, BM Gross… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The power of cation-initiated cyclizations of polyenes for the synthesis of polycyclic
terpenoids cannot be overstated. However, a major limitation is the intolerance of many …

Batch and continuous flow asymmetric synthesis of anabolic-androgenic steroids via a single-cell biocatalytic Δ 1-dehydrogenation and C17β-carbonyl reduction …

Y Zhang, M Liu, Z Yang, J Lin, Z Huang, F Chen - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemoenzymatic asymmetric synthesis of an anabolic-androgenic steroid (+)-boldenone (3)
and its prodrug (+)-boldenone undecylenate (4) was accomplished starting from …

The role of biocatalysis in the asymmetric synthesis of alkaloids–an update

E Cigan, B Eggbauer, JH Schrittwieser, W Kroutil - RSC advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Alkaloids are a group of natural products with interesting pharmacological properties and a
long history of medicinal application. Their complex molecular structures have fascinated …

C–H modification of natural products: a minimalist enabling tactic for drug discovery, API processing and bioconjugation

S Sengupta, S Pabbaraja, G Mehta - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Intrusion into the C–H chemical space of natural products through the strategic deployment
of C–H functionalization reactions could lead to incredibly new molecular diversities with an …

Structurefunction relationships in plant UDP-glycosyltransferases

J Yao, X Xing, L Yu, Y Wang, X Zhang… - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Uridine diphosphate-dependent glycosyltransferases (UGTs) in plants catalyze O-, C-, S-
and N-glycosylation of diverse substrates to yield a wide variety of glycosides with broad …