Synthetic biology for the directed evolution of protein biocatalysts: navigating sequence space intelligently

A Currin, N Swainston, PJ Day, DB Kell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …

Microbial degradation of glyphosate herbicides

AV Sviridov, TV Shushkova, IT Ermakova… - Applied biochemistry …, 2015 - Springer
This review analyzes the issues associated with biodegradation of glyphosate (N-
(phosphonomethyl) glycine), one of the most widespread herbicides. Glyphosate can …

Utilization of glyphosate as phosphate source: biochemistry and genetics of bacterial carbon-phosphorus lyase

B Hove-Jensen, DL Zechel… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
After several decades of use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in weed killers such as
Roundup, in fields, forests, and gardens, the biochemical pathway of transformation of …

Aldo-keto Reductase Metabolizes Glyphosate and Confers Glyphosate Resistance in Echinochloa colona

L Pan, Q Yu, H Han, L Mao, A Nyporko, LJ Fan… - Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Glyphosate, the most commonly used herbicide in the world, controls a wide range of plant
species, mainly because plants have little capacity to metabolize (detoxify) glyphosate …

Molecular basis of glyphosate resistance–different approaches through protein engineering

L Pollegioni, E Schonbrunn, D Siehl - The FEBS journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Glyphosate (N‐phosphonomethyl‐glycine) is the most widely used herbicide in the world:
glyphosate‐based formulations exhibit broad‐spectrum herbicidal activity with minimal …

Glyphosate degradation in glyphosate-resistant and-susceptible crops and weeds

SO Duke - Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
High levels of aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), the main glyphosate metabolite, have
been found in glyphosate-treated, glyphosate-resistant (GR) soybean, apparently due to …

Glyphosate-degrading behavior of five bacterial strains isolated from stream biofilms

F Rossi, L Carles, F Donnadieu, I Batisson… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the individual degrading behavior of bacterial strains isolated
from glyphosate-degrading stream biofilms. In this aim, biofilms were subjected to …

[HTML][HTML] Computational modelling provides insight into the effects of glyphosate on the shikimate pathway in the human gut microbiome

R Mesnage, MN Antoniou - Current research in toxicology, 2020 - Elsevier
The herbicide active ingredient glyphosate can affect the growth of microorganisms, which
rely on the shikimate pathway for aromatic amino acid biosynthesis. However, it is uncertain …

Flavoprotein oxidases: classification and applications

WP Dijkman, G de Gonzalo, A Mattevi… - Applied Microbiology and …, 2013 - Springer
This review provides an overview of oxidases that utilise a flavin cofactor for catalysis. This
class of oxidative flavoenzymes has shown to harbour a large number of biotechnologically …

New biotech applications from evolved D-amino acid oxidases

L Pollegioni, G Molla - Trends in biotechnology, 2011 - cell.com
d-Amino acid oxidase (DAAO) is a well-known flavoenzyme that catalyzes the oxygen-
dependent oxidative deamination of amino acid D-isomers with absolute stereospecificity …