Microbial valorization of lignin toward coumarins: Challenges and perspectives

RY Liu, HN Lan, ZH Liu, BZ Li, YJ Yuan - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lignin is the largest renewable aromatic resource in nature, while aromatic natural products,
coumarins, are part of a large family of plant secondary metabolites with many …

Plant pyranocoumarins: Description, biosynthesis, application

MT Khandy, AK Sofronova, TY Gorpenchenko… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
This overview article contains information about pyranocoumarins over the last 55 years.
The article is based on the authors' phytochemical and physiological studies in vivo and in …

The gradual establishment of complex coumarin biosynthetic pathway in Apiaceae

XC Huang, H Tang, X Wei, Y He, S Hu, JY Wu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Complex coumarins (CCs) represent characteristic metabolites found in Apiaceae plants,
possessing significant medical value. Their essential functional role is likely as protectants …

Biosynthesis and heterologous production of furanocoumarins: perspectives and current challenges

JL Rodrigues, LR Rodrigues - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to October 2020 Furanocoumarins are plant secondary metabolites used to
treat several skin disorders, such as psoriasis and vitiligo, and also with other potential …

Synthetic and biosynthetic methods for selective cyclisations of 4, 5-epoxy alcohols to tetrahydropyrans

JI Bowen, L Wang, MP Crump, CL Willis - Organic & Biomolecular …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Tetrahydropyrans (THPs) are common structural motifs found in natural products and
synthetic therapeutic molecules. In Nature these 6-membered oxygen heterocycles are often …

Computational Exploration of How Enzyme **mE Converts Natural S-Epoxide to Pyran and R-Epoxide to Furan

C Jiang, BB He, RL Zhao, MJ Xu, KN Houk… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enzymes have long been characterized for their specificity and efficiency in catalyzing one
substrate to one product. However, a SnoaL-like cyclase (**mE) that was originally …

Challenges in the Heterologous Production of Furanocoumarins in Escherichia coli

JL Rodrigues, D Gomes, LR Rodrigues - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coumarins and furanocoumarins are plant secondary metabolites with known biological
activities. As they are present in low amounts in plants, their heterologous production …

Furanocoumarins from Heracleum persicum L.: Unveiling their biosynthesis and gene expression

A Ebrahimi, M Aghbabayi, S Rashidi-Monfared… - Industrial Crops and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the high value of Persian angelica (Heracleum persicum L.) and the limited genetic
information regarding this plant, the investigation of the main secondary metabolites and …

A fungal promiscuous UbiA prenyltransferase expands the structural diversity of chrodrimanin-type meroterpenoids

K Zhang, G Zhang, X Hou, C Ma, J Liu, Q Che… - Organic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Prenyltransferases play important roles in the diversification of natural products and the
improvement of biological activities. A UbiA-type prenyltransferase CdnC with substrate …

Modifications of Prenyl Side Chains in Natural Product Biosynthesis

H Wang, Y Yang, I Abe - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in understanding the enzymatic
machinery responsible for the modifications of prenyl side chains and elucidating their roles …