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 …

Flavin dependent monooxygenases

MME Huijbers, S Montersino, AH Westphal… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2014 - Elsevier
Flavin-dependent monooxygenases catalyze a wide variety of chemo-, regio-and
enantioselective oxygenation reactions. As such, they are involved in key biological …

Unifying and versatile features of flavin-dependent monooxygenases: Diverse catalysis by a common C4a-(hydro) peroxyflavin

A Phintha, P Chaiyen - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
Flavin-dependent monooxygenases (FDMOs) are known for their remarkable versatility and
for their crucial roles in various biological processes and applications. Extensive research …

Monooxygenation of aromatic compounds by flavin‐dependent monooxygenases

P Chenprakhon, T Wongnate, P Chaiyen - Protein Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many flavoenzymes catalyze hydroxylation of aromatic compounds especially phenolic
compounds have been isolated and characterized. These enzymes can be classified as …

Multiple pathways guide oxygen diffusion into flavoenzyme active sites

R Baron, C Riley, P Chenprakhon… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Dioxygen (O2) and other gas molecules have a fundamental role in a variety of enzymatic
reactions. However, it is only poorly understood which O2 uptake mechanism enzymes …

The FMN-dependent two-component monooxygenase systems

HR Ellis - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2010 - Elsevier
The FMN-dependent two-component monooxygenase systems catalyze a diverse range of
reactions. These two-component systems are composed of an FMN reductase enzyme and …

Mechanism of oxygen activation in a flavin-dependent monooxygenase: a nearly barrierless formation of C4a-hydroperoxyflavin via proton-coupled electron transfer

S Visitsatthawong, P Chenprakhon… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Understanding how flavin-dependent enzymes activate oxygen for their oxidation and
oxygenation reactions is one of the most challenging issues in flavoenzymology. Density …

Properties and mechanisms of flavin-dependent monooxygenases and their applications in natural product synthesis

Y Deng, Q Zhou, Y Wu, X Chen, F Zhong - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Natural products are usually highly complicated organic molecules with special scaffolds,
and they are an important resource in medicine. Natural products with complicated …

Mechanisms of reduced flavin transfer in the two-component flavin-dependent monooxygenases

J Sucharitakul, R Tinikul, P Chaiyen - Archives of biochemistry and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Two-component flavin-dependent enzymes are abundant in nature and are involved in a
wide variety of biological reactions. These enzymes consist of a reductase which generates …

A flavin-dependent monooxygenase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis involved in cholesterol catabolism

C Dresen, LYC Lin, I D'Angelo, EI Tocheva… - Journal of Biological …, 2010 - ASBMB
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 have similar cholesterol
catabolic pathways. This pathway contributes to the pathogenicity of Mtb. The hsaAB …