High selectivity and exquisite control over the outcome of reactions entice chemists to use
biocatalysts in organic synthesis. However, many useful reactions are not accessible …

The borylation of alkanes and arenes has become some of the most practical C–H bond
functionalization chemistry. Most striking is the high regioselectivity of these reactions …

In recent years, significant progress has been made in understanding the geometric and
electronic structures of the active sites of non-heme iron enzymes and the contributions of …

The evolution of new genes to make novel secondary compounds in plants is an ongoing
process and might account for most of the differences in gene function among plant …

▪ Abstract The type II fatty acid synthetic pathway is the principal route for the production of
membrane phospholipid acyl chains in bacteria and plants. The reaction sequence is …

The availability of a nearly complete genome sequence for Arabidopsis has created many
novel opportunities to identify, by computational methods, the genes that encode enzymes …

Biocatalysis has expanded rapidly in the last decades with the discoveries of highly
stereoselective enzymes with broad substrate specificity. A new frontier for biocatalysis is …

Isoprenoids represent the oldest class of known low molecular-mass natural products
synthesized by plants. Their biogenesis in plastids, mitochondria and the endoplasmic …

We present an analysis of over 1,100 of the∼ 10,000 predicted proteins encoded by the
genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Seven major areas of …

Fatty acids are the most abundant form of reduced carbon chains available from nature and
have diverse uses ranging from food to industrial feedstocks. Plants represent a significant …