Recent progresses in the cyclization and oxidation of polyketide biosynthesis

B Zhang, HM Ge - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Polyketides represent an important class of natural products, renowned for their intricate
structures and diverse biological activities. In contrast to common fatty acids, polyketides …

The role and mechanisms of canonical and non-canonical tailoring enzymes in bacterial terpenoid biosynthesis

Y Kakumu, AA Chaudhri, EJN Helfrich - Natural Product Reports, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to April 2024Terpenoids represent the largest and structurally most diverse
class of natural products. According to textbook knowledge, this diversity arises from a two …

A Functional Switch Between Asperfumene and Fusicoccadiene Synthase and Entrance to Asperfumene Biosynthesis through a Vicinal Deprotonation‐Reprotonation …

JY Liu, FL Lin, KA Taizoumbe, JM Lv… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The diterpene synthase AfAS was identified from Aspergillus fumigatiaffinis. Its amino acid
sequence and—according to a structural model—active site architecture are highly similar to …

Subrutilane—A Hexacyclic Sesterterpene from Streptomyces subrutilus

B Gu, B Goldfuss, G Schnakenburg… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mining of a terpene synthase from Streptomyces subrutilus resulted in the identification of
the hexacyclic sesterterpene subrutilane, besides eight pentacyclic side products …

Common Biosynthesis of Non‐Canonical C16 Terpenes through a Fragmentation‐Recombination Mechanism

H Xu, B Goldfuss, JS Dickschat - … Chemie International Edition, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The biosynthesis of six recently reported non‐canonical C16 sesquiterpenoids named after
ancient Greek philosophers, archimedene, aristotelene, eratosthenene, pythagorene, α …

Two Sesterterpene Synthases from Lentzea atacamensis Demonstrate the Role of Conformational Variability in Terpene Biosynthesis

B Gu, B Goldfuss, JS Dickschat - … Chemie International Edition, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mining of two multiproduct sesterterpene synthases from Lentzea atacamensis resulted in
the identification of the synthases for lentzeadiene (LaLDS) and atacamatriene (LaATS). The …

Biosynthesis of the Non‐Canonical C17 Sesquiterpenoids Chlororaphen A and B from Pseudomonas Chlororaphis

H Xu, H Li, B Goldfuss, G Schnakenburg… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chlororaphens A and B are structurally unique non‐canonical C17 sesquiterpenoids from
Pseudomonas chlororaphis that are made by two SAM‐dependent methyltransferases and a …

Genome Mining from Agriculturally Relevant Fungi Led to a d-Glucose Esterified Polyketide with a Terpene-like Core Structure

C Yan, W Han, Q Zhou, K Niwa, MJ Tang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Comparison of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) found in devastating plant pathogens and
biocontrol fungi revealed an uncharacterized and conserved polyketide BGC. Genome …

Mechanistic characterisation of a sesquiterpene synthase for asterisca-1, 6-diene from the liverwort Radula lindenbergiana and implications for pentalenene …

H Xu, TG Köllner, F Chen, JS Dickschat - Organic & Biomolecular …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
A sesquiterpene synthase from the liverwort Radula lindenbergiana was characterised and
shown to produce the new sesquiterpene hydrocarbon (3R, 9R)-asterisca-1, 6-diene …

Telesco** a Prenyltransferase and a Diterpene Synthase to Transform Unnatural FPP Derivatives to Diterpenoids

H Struwe, H Li, F Schrödter, L Höft, J Fohrer… - Organic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
New diterpenoids are accessible from non-natural FPP derivatives as substrates for an
enzymatic elongation cyclization cascade using the geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase …