Angucyclines: Biosynthesis, mode-of-action, new natural products, and synthesis

MK Kharel, P Pahari, MD Shepherd, N Tibrewal… - Natural product …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1997 to 2010 The angucycline group is the largest group of type II PKS-
engineered natural products, rich in biological activities and chemical scaffolds. This …

Nonenzymatic reactions in natural product formation

LM Bouthillette, V Aniebok, DA Colosimo… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Biosynthetic mechanisms of natural products primarily depend on systems of protein
catalysts. However, within the field of biosynthesis, there are cases in which the inherent …

Biosynthesis of Polyketides in Streptomyces

C Risdian, T Mozef, J Wink - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
Polyketides are a large group of secondary metabolites that have notable variety in their
structure and function. Polyketides exhibit a wide range of bioactivities such as antibacterial …

Bioactive secondary metabolites from octocoral-associated microbes—new chances for blue growth

I Raimundo, SG Silva, R Costa, T Keller-Costa - Marine drugs, 2018 - mdpi.com
Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa Octocorallia) are magnificent repositories of natural products
with fascinating and unusual chemical structures and bioactivities of interest to medicine and …

Activating secondary metabolism with stress and chemicals

V Yoon, JR Nodwell - Journal of Industrial Microbiology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The available literature on the secondary or nonessential metabolites of the streptomycetes
bacteria suggests that there may be poorly expressed or “cryptic” compounds that have yet …

Genome-wide analysis of the role of GlnR in Streptomyces venezuelae provides new insights into global nitrogen regulation in actinomycetes

ST Pullan, G Chandra, MJ Bibb, M Merrick - BMC genomics, 2011 - Springer
Background GlnR is an atypical response regulator found in actinomycetes that modulates
the transcription of genes in response to changes in nitrogen availability. We applied a …

Angucyclines as signals modulate the behaviors of Streptomyces coelicolor

W Wang, J Ji, X Li, J Wang, S Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The angucycline antibiotic jadomycin B (JdB) produced by Streptomyces venezuelae has
been found here to induce complex survival responses in Streptomyces coelicolor at …

A unified strategy to access 2-and 4-deoxygenated sugars enabled by manganese-promoted 1, 2-radical migration

HM Carder, CE Suh, AE Wendlandt - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The selective manipulation of carbohydrate scaffolds is challenging due to the presence of
multiple, nearly chemically indistinguishable O–H and C–H bonds. As a result, protecting …

Selective transformations of carbohydrates inspired by radical-based enzymatic mechanisms

CE Suh, HM Carder, AE Wendlandt - ACS Chemical Biology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enzymes are a longstanding source of inspiration for synthetic reaction development.
However, enzymatic reactivity and selectivity are frequently untenable in a synthetic context …

Modulation of the central carbon metabolism of Corynebacterium glutamicum improves malonyl‐CoA availability and increases plant polyphenol synthesis

L Milke, P Ferreira, N Kallscheuer… - Biotechnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years microorganisms have been engineered towards synthesizing interesting
plant polyphenols such as flavonoids and stilbenes from glucose. Currently, the low …