Anti-obesity effects of capsaicin and the underlying mechanisms: A review

R Li, Y Lan, C Chen, Y Cao, Q Huang, CT Ho, M Lu - Food & function, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Obesity and overweight have become serious health problems in the world and are linked to
a variety of metabolic disorders. Phytochemicals with a weight-loss effect have been widely …

Recent advances in the biosynthetic studies of bacterial organoarsenic natural products

S Hoshino, H Onaka, I Abe - Natural Product Reports, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1977 to present Arsenic is widely distributed throughout terrestrial and aquatic
environments, mainly in highly toxic inorganic forms. To adapt to environmental inorganic …

Serum-stable and selective backbone-N-methylated cyclic peptides that inhibit prokaryotic glycolytic mutases

RHP Van Neer, PK Dranchak, L Liu, M Aitha… - ACS chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
N-Methylated amino acids (N-MeAAs) are privileged residues of naturally occurring peptides
critical to bioactivity. However, de novo discovery from ribosome display is limited by poor …

Macrocycle peptides delineate locked-open inhibition mechanism for microorganism phosphoglycerate mutases

H Yu, P Dranchak, Z Li, R MacArthur… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Glycolytic interconversion of phosphoglycerate isomers is catalysed in numerous
pathogenic microorganisms by a cofactor-independent mutase (iPGM) structurally distinct …

Structural and functional characterization of the BcsG subunit of the cellulose synthase in Salmonella typhimurium

L Sun, P Vella, R Schnell, A Polyakova… - Journal of molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Many bacteria secrete cellulose, which forms the structural basis for bacterial multicellular
aggregates, termed biofilms. The cellulose synthase complex of Salmonella typhimurium …

Insights into Arsenic Secondary Metabolism in Actinomycetes from the Structure and Biosynthesis of Bisenarsan

S Hoshino, S Ijichi, S Asamizu… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The unique bioactivities of arsenic-containing secondary metabolites have been revealed
recently, but studies on arsenic secondary metabolism in microorganisms have been …

Arabidopsis thaliana 2,3‐bisphosphoglycerate‐independent phosphoglycerate mutase 2 activity requires serine 82 phosphorylation

P Duminil, M Davanture, C Oury… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphoglycerate mutases (PGAMs) catalyse the reversible isomerisation of 3‐
phosphoglycerate and 2‐phosphoglycerate, a step of glycolysis. PGAMs can be sub‐divided …

Structure–activity relationship of ipglycermide binding to phosphoglycerate mutases

M Wiedmann, PK Dranchak, M Aitha, B Queme… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - jbc.org
Catalysis of human phosphoglycerate mutase is dependent on a 2, 3-bisphosphoglycerate
cofactor (dPGM), whereas the nonhomologous isozyme in many parasitic species is cofactor …

Structural elements of cyanobacterial co-factor-independent phosphoglycerate mutase that mediate regulation by PirC

T Orthwein, JT Alford, NS Becker, P Fink… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Abstract The 2, 3-bisphosphoglycerate-independent phosphoglycerate mutase (iPGAM) has
been identified as a crucial regulating key point in the carbon storage metabolism of …

[PDF][PDF] Inhibitors of Leishmania mexicana phosphoglycerate mutase identified by virtual screening and verified by inhibition studies

FAA Fuad, DR Houston, PAM Michels - Sains Malaysiana, 2016 - ukm.my
Cofactor-independent phosphoglycerate mutase has been proposed as a therapeutic target
for the treatment of trypanosomatid diseases. In this paper, we report the identification of …