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 …

Formation and cleavage of C–C bonds by enzymatic oxidation–reduction reactions

FP Guengerich, FK Yoshimoto - Chemical Reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Many oxidation–reduction (redox) enzymes, particularly oxygenases, have roles in reactions
that make and break C–C bonds. The list includes cytochrome P450 and other heme-based …

Metabolic and pharmaceutical aspects of fluorinated compounds

BM Johnson, YZ Shu, X Zhuo… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The applications of fluorine in drug design continue to expand, facilitated by an improved
understanding of its effects on physicochemical properties and the development of synthetic …

Baeyer–Villiger monooxygenases: tunable oxidative biocatalysts

MJLJ Fürst, A Gran-Scheuch, FS Aalbers… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Pollution, accidents, and misinformation have earned the pharmaceutical and chemical
industry a poor public reputation, despite their undisputable importance to society …

Evolution of enzyme functionality in the flavin-containing monooxygenases

G Bailleul, G Yang, CR Nicoll, A Mattevi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Among the molecular mechanisms of adaptation in biology, enzyme functional
diversification is indispensable. By allowing organisms to expand their catalytic repertoires …

Ancestral-sequence reconstruction unveils the structural basis of function in mammalian FMOs

CR Nicoll, G Bailleul, F Fiorentini, ML Mascotti… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
Flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs) are ubiquitous in all domains of life and
metabolize a myriad of xenobiotics, including toxins, pesticides and drugs. However, despite …

Drug metabolism by flavin-containing monooxygenases of human and mouse

IR Phillips, EA Shephard - Expert opinion on drug metabolism & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: Flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs) play an important role
in drug metabolism. Areas covered: We focus on the role of FMOs in the metabolism of drugs …

NHR-49/PPAR-α and HLH-30/TFEB cooperate for C. elegans host defense via a flavin-containing monooxygenase

KA Wani, D Goswamy, S Taubert, R Ratnappan… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The model organism Caenorhabditis elegans mounts transcriptional defense responses
against intestinal bacterial infections that elicit overlap** starvation and infection …

Predicting regioselectivity of AO, CYP, FMO, and UGT metabolism using quantum mechanical simulations and machine learning

M Oeren, PJ Walton, J Suri, DJ Ponting… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Unexpected metabolism in modification and conjugation phases can lead to the failure of
many late-stage drug candidates or even withdrawal of approved drugs. Thus, it is critical to …

Roles of selected non-P450 human oxidoreductase enzymes in protective and toxic effects of chemicals: review and compilation of reactions

SP Rendić, RD Crouch, FP Guengerich - Archives of Toxicology, 2022 - Springer
This is an overview of the metabolic reactions of drugs, natural products, physiological
compounds, and other (general) chemicals catalyzed by flavin monooxygenase (FMO) …