Harnessing ortho-Quinone Methides in Natural Product Biosynthesis and Biocatalysis

TN Purdy, BS Moore, AL Lukowski - Journal of natural products, 2022 - ACS Publications
The implementation of ortho-quinone methide (o-QM) intermediates in complex molecule
assembly represents a remarkably efficient strategy designed by Nature and utilized by …

Biosynthetic strategies of berberine bridge enzyme-like flavoprotein oxidases toward structural diversification in natural product biosynthesis

G Tjallinks, A Mattevi, MW Fraaije - Biochemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Berberine bridge enzyme-like oxidases are often involved in natural product biosynthesis
and are seen as essential enzymes for the generation of intricate pharmacophores. These …

Berberine bridge enzyme-like oxidase-catalysed double bond isomerization acts as the pathway switch in cytochalasin synthesis

JM Zhang, X Liu, Q Wei, C Ma, D Li, Y Zou - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Cytochalasans (CYTs), as well as their polycyclic (pcCYTs) and polymerized (meCYTs)
derivatives, constitute one of the largest families of fungal polyketide-nonribosomal peptide …

A Berberine Bridge Enzyme-like Oxidase Mediates the Cage-like Acresorbicillinol C Biosynthesis

S Wang, M Wang, C Duan, Y Yao, J Ren, L Liu… - Organic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Oxosorbicillinol and cage-like acresorbicillinol C are bioactive sorbicillinoids produced by
Acremonium chrysogenum. We found that a berberine bridge enzyme-like oxidase AcsorD …

Covalent flavoproteins: types, occurrence, biogenesis and catalytic mechanisms

W Minjun, W Zhang, W Nan - Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines, 2022 - Elsevier
Flavoproteins are proteins that contain a nucleic acid derivative of riboflavin: flavin adenine
dinucleotide (FAD) or flavin mononucleotide (FMN). Flavoproteins are involved in a wide …

Discovery of Latent Cannabichromene Cyclase Activity in Marine Bacterial Flavoenzymes

AC Love, TN Purdy, FM Hubert, EJ Kirwan… - ACS synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Production of phytocannabinoids remains an area of active scientific interest due to the
growing use of cannabis by the public and the underexplored therapeutic potential of the …

Biosynthesis of the fusarium mycotoxin (−)-sambutoxin

EB Go, LJ Kim, HM Nelson, M Ohashi, Y Tang - Organic letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
4-Hydroxy-2-pyridone alkaloids have attracted attention for synthetic and biosynthetic
studies due to their broad biological activities and structural diversity. Here, we elucidated …

Bisprenyl naphthoquinone and chlorinated calcimycin congener bearing thiazole ring from an actinomycete of the genus Phytohabitans

E Harunari, S Mae, K Fukaya, E Tashiro… - The Journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract A bisprenyl naphthoquinone, phytohabinone (1), and a calcimycin congener with
unusual modifications, phytohabimicin (2), were isolated from the culture extract of …

Pattern-Based Genome Mining Guides Discovery of the Antibiotic Indanopyrrole A from a Marine Streptomycete

D Sweeney, A Bogdanov, AB Chase… - Journal of Natural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Terrestrial actinomycetes in the genus Streptomyces have long been recognized as prolific
producers of small-molecule natural products, including many clinically important antibiotics …

In Vitro and In Vivo Metabolic Activation and Hepatotoxicity of Environmental Pollutant 2,6-Dimethylphenol

M Zhang, Y Hu, W Li, C Sun, C Guan… - Chemical Research …, 2022 - ACS Publications
2, 6-Dimethylphenol (2, 6-DMP) is an environmental pollutant found in industrial wastewater.
Exposure to 2, 6-DMP is of increasing concern as it endangered reportedly some aquatic …