Genome mining methods to discover bioactive natural products

KD Bauman, KS Butler, BS Moore… - Natural Product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2016 to 2021 With genetic information available for hundreds of thousands of
organisms in publicly accessible databases, scientists have an unprecedented opportunity …

The EFI web resource for genomic enzymology tools: leveraging protein, genome, and metagenome databases to discover novel enzymes and metabolic pathways

R Zallot, N Oberg, JA Gerlt - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
The assignment of functions to uncharacterized proteins discovered in genome projects
requires easily accessible tools and computational resources for large-scale, user-friendly …

Psychrophiles: a source of cold-adapted enzymes for energy efficient biotechnological industrial processes

RK Bhatia, S Ullah, MZ Hoque, I Ahmad… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biocatalysts are the backbone of bioprocessing industries that are going through a phase of
transition with reference to the requirement of extraordinary enzymes for various …

EFI-EST, EFI-GNT, and EFI-CGFP: enzyme function initiative (EFI) web resource for genomic enzymology tools

N Oberg, R Zallot, JA Gerlt - Journal of molecular biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI) provides a web resource with “genomic
enzymology” web tools to leverage the protein (UniProt) and genome (European Nucleotide …

Biocatalytic oxidative cross-coupling reactions for biaryl bond formation

LE Zetzsche, JA Yazarians, S Chakrabarty, ME Hinze… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Biaryl compounds, with two connected aromatic rings, are found across medicine, materials
science and asymmetric catalysis,. The necessity of joining arene building blocks to access …

RadicalSAM. org: a resource to interpret sequence-function space and discover new radical SAM enzyme chemistry

N Oberg, TW Precord, DA Mitchell… - ACS bio & med chem …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The radical SAM superfamily (RSS), arguably the most functionally diverse enzyme
superfamily, is also one of the largest with∼ 700 K members currently in the UniProt …

Discovery, structure and mechanism of a tetraether lipid synthase

CT Lloyd, DF Iwig, B Wang, M Cossu, WW Metcalf… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Archaea synthesize isoprenoid-based ether-linked membrane lipids, which enable them to
withstand extreme environmental conditions, such as high temperatures, high salinity, and …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of a B12-dependent radical SAM enzyme in carbapenem biosynthesis

HL Knox, EK Sinner, CA Townsend, AK Boal… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Carbapenems are antibiotics of last resort in the clinic. Owing to their potency and broad-
spectrum activity, they are an important part of the antibiotic arsenal. The vital role of …

Post-translational formation of strained cyclophanes in bacteria

TQN Nguyen, YW Tooh, R Sugiyama, TPD Nguyen… - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Cyclic peptide natural products have served as important drug molecules, with several
examples used clinically. Enzymatic or chemical macrocyclization is the key transformation …

Leveraging a structural blueprint to rationally engineer the Rieske oxygenase TsaM

J Tian, AA Garcia, PH Donnan, J Bridwell-Rabb - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rieske nonheme iron oxygenases use two metallocenters, a Rieske-type [2Fe-2S] cluster
and a mononuclear iron center, to catalyze oxidation reactions on a broad range of …