Same substrate, many reactions: oxygen activation in flavoenzymes

E Romero, JR Gómez Castellanos, G Gadda… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over time, organisms have evolved strategies to cope with the abundance of dioxygen on
Earth. Oxygen-utilizing enzymes tightly control the reactions involving O2 mostly by …

Enzymatic halogenation and dehalogenation reactions: pervasive and mechanistically diverse

V Agarwal, ZD Miles, JM Winter, AS Eustáquio… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Naturally produced halogenated compounds are ubiquitous across all domains of life where
they perform a multitude of biological functions and adopt a diversity of chemical structures …

[HTML][HTML] Flavoprotein monooxygenases: versatile biocatalysts

CE Paul, D Eggerichs, AH Westphal, D Tischler… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flavoprotein monooxygenases (FPMOs) are single-or two-component enzymes that
catalyze a diverse set of chemo-, regio-and enantioselective oxyfunctionalization reactions …

Enzymatic dimerization in the biosynthetic pathway of microbial natural products

J Liu, A Liu, Y Hu - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to August 2020 The dramatic increase in the identification of dimeric natural
products generated by microorganisms and plants has played a significant role in drug …

[HTML][HTML] The devil is in the details: The chemical basis and mechanistic versatility of flavoprotein monooxygenases

M Toplak, A Matthews, R Teufel - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
The ubiquitous flavoenzymes commonly catalyze redox chemistry such as the
monooxygenation of organic substrates and are both widely utilized in nature (eg, in primary …

Flavins as covalent catalysts: new mechanisms emerge

V Piano, BA Palfey, A Mattevi - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2017 - cell.com
With approximately 1% of proteins being flavoproteins, flavins are at the heart of a plethora
of redox reactions in all areas of biology. Thanks to a series of fascinating recent …

Two-component FAD-dependent monooxygenases: current knowledge and biotechnological opportunities

T Heine, WJH Van Berkel, G Gassner, KH Van Pée… - Biology, 2018 - mdpi.com
Flavoprotein monooxygenases create valuable compounds that are of high interest for the
chemical, pharmaceutical, and agrochemical industries, among others. Monooxygenases …

Harnessing ortho-Quinone Methides in Natural Product Biosynthesis and Biocatalysis

TN Purdy, BS Moore, AL Lukowski - Journal of natural products, 2022 - ACS Publications
The implementation of ortho-quinone methide (o-QM) intermediates in complex molecule
assembly represents a remarkably efficient strategy designed by Nature and utilized by …

Aminoperoxide adducts expand the catalytic repertoire of flavin monooxygenases

A Matthews, R Saleem-Batcha, JN Sanders… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
One of the hallmark reactions catalyzed by flavin-dependent enzymes is the incorporation of
an oxygen atom derived from dioxygen into organic substrates. For many decades, these …

Biosynthesis of coral settlement cue tetrabromopyrrole in marine bacteria by a uniquely adapted brominase–thioesterase enzyme pair

A El Gamal, V Agarwal, S Diethelm… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Halogenated pyrroles (halopyrroles) are common chemical moieties found in bioactive
bacterial natural products. The halopyrrole moieties of mono-and dihalopyrrole-containing …