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... Natural products have complex chemical structures and exhibit diverse bioactivities. To harness these high-value natural compounds, robust approaches are required for their rapid and sustainable production. Recently, cell-free systems as one promising solution have been applied to produce natural products by reconstitution of their entire biosynthetic pathways in vitro. Here, we highlight recent a ...
... High pliability and promiscuity are observed widely exist in plant specialized metabolism, especially the hydroxycinnamic acid metabolism. Here, we identified an addition BAHD acyltransferase (EpHMT) that catalyzes phaselic acid biosynthesis and found that the substrate promiscuities of identified BAHD and SCPL acyltransferases are responsible for the diversity of hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives ...
biosynthesis, etc ; 2-methylisoborneol; stereochemistry; stereoselectivity; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The biosynthesis of 2-methylisoborneol was reconstituted by elongation of dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) with (S)- and (R)-2-methylisopentenyl diphosphate (2-Me-IPP) using farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPPS), followed by terpene cyclisation. The stereochemical course of the FPPS reaction was studied in detail using stereoselectively deuterated 2-Me-IPP isotopomers. ...
biosynthesis, etc ; biophysics; crop production; ethylene; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The significance of the paper by Yu et al. (1979) is discussed in the context of the long history of ethylene as a plant growth regulator. By launching the era of molecular analysis and biotechnological exploitation, this research made a vital contribution to crop production and quality. ...
biosynthesis, etc ; biochemical pathways; biotechnology; genome; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Non-model microorganisms possess unique and versatile metabolic characteristics, offering great opportunities as cell factories for biosynthesis of target products. However, lack of efficient genetic tools for pathway engineering represents a big challenge to unlock the full production potential of these microbes. Over the past years, CRISPR systems have been extensively developed and applied to d ...
... Covering up to June 2021 Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) from fungi are an underexplored class of natural products, despite their propensity for diverse bioactivities and unique structural features. Surveys of fungal genomes for biosynthetic gene clusters encoding RiPPs have been limited in their scope due to our incomplete understanding of fungal RiPP bi ...
biosynthesis, etc ; diterpenoids; fungi; metabolites; paxilline; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Rearranged indole diterpenes of the paxilline type comprise a large group of fungal metabolites that possess diverse structural features and potentially useful biological effects. The unique indoloterpenoid motif, which is common to all congeners, was first confirmed by crystallographic studies of paxilline. This family of natural products has fascinated organic chemists for the past four decades ...
biosynthesis, etc ; byproducts; density functional theory; Show all 3 Subjects
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... Synthetic approaches to bicyclo[4.2.0]octadiene natural products frequently employ the synthesis of linear tetraenes to initiate a biosynthetic 8π/6π-electrocyclization cascade. This work forges a functionalized bicyclo[4.2.0]octadiene in two steps from cyclooctatetraene. The versatility of this method is demonstrated through natural product synthesis, including the first total synthesis of kingia ...
biosynthesis, etc ; Escherichia coli; Ziziphus jujuba; glycosides; Show all 4 Subjects
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... A novel and efficient 2′′-O-glycosyltransferase ZjOGT38 was identified from Ziziphus jujuba. It could regio-selectively glycosylate 2-hydroxyflavanone C-glycosides. ZjOGT38 allowed de novo biosynthesis of isovitexin 2′′-O-glucoside in E. coli. ...
biosynthesis, etc ; epigenetics; heterologous gene expression; metabolites; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Marine microorganisms have proven to be a source of new natural products with a wide spectrum of biological activities relevant in different industrial sectors. The ever-increasing number of sequenced microbial genomes has highlighted a discrepancy between the number of gene clusters potentially encoding the production of natural products and the actual number of chemically characterized metabolit ...
biosynthesis, etc ; heterologous gene expression; metabolites; microbiome; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Microbial specialized metabolites play key roles in microbiome interactions, but their biosynthetic pathways are difficult to characterize. In this issue, Patel et al. (2022) describe new technologies for the computer-aided redesign of gene clusters to facilitate heterologous expression across diverse hosts and showcase their utility by identifying a new class of microbiome-derived nucleotide meta ...
biosynthesis, etc ; fruits; genes; lutein; phytonutrients; tomatoes; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Carotenoids are vital phytonutrients widely recognised for their health benefits. Therefore, it is vital to thoroughly investigate the metabolic regulatory network underlying carotenoid biosynthesis and accumulation to open new leads towards improving their contents in vegetables and crops. The outcome of our study defines SlWRKY35 as a positive regulator of carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato. SlWR ...
biosynthesis, etc ; dimethylallyltranstransferase; fungi; heterologous gene expression; meroterpenoids; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Prenyltransferases play important roles in the diversification of natural products and the improvement of biological activities. A UbiA-type prenyltransferase CdnC with substrate promiscuity was identified as the pivotal builder of the noncanonical chrodrimanin skeletons, which carry a benzo-cyclohexanone structure as the nonterpene part. In vitro and heterologous expression studies with CdnC led ...
biosynthesis, etc ; Vigna radiata; Zea mays; aldehydes; leaves; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Green leaf volatiles (GLV) are essentially produced by the green parts of plants upon damage. GLV are mainly 6-carbon molecules derived from fatty acids through the hydroperoxide lyase pathway and can serve as airborne signals to other parts of the same plant and to neighboring plants and help to protect them against biotic and abiotic stresses. However, while the biosynthesis is generally well un ...
biosynthesis, etc ; biocompatibility; biomedical research; cytotoxicity; remediation; solvents; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Green synthesis approaches of nanomaterials (NMs) have received considerable attention in recent years as it addresses the sustainability issues posed by conventional synthesis methods. However, recent works of literature do not present the complete picture of biogenic NMs. This paper addresses the previous gaps by providing insights into the stability and toxicity of NMs, critically reviewing the ...
biosynthesis, etc ; Aconitum; Delphinium; biotransformation; medicine; toxicity; toxicology; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Norditerpenoid alkaloids (NDA), typically N-ethylpiperidine containing C19 or C18 natural product diterpenes, are hexacycles with several contiguous often oxygenated stereocentres. As a function of their structural complexity, they display important pharmacological activities. The processed plants are used as important folk drugs and four NDAs have now been clinically approved. Many metabolism stu ...
biosynthesis, etc ; Echium amoenum; ethanol; nanocatalysts; nanosilver; silver; Show all 6 Subjects
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... A silver nanocatalyst has been used as an effective catalyst for the preparation of quinazolinones under reflux conditions in ethanol. The catalyst was characterized by UV-VIS, FT-IR, XRD, SEM and EDS. Amongst the many benefits of this method are atom economy, reusability of the catalyst, low catalyst loading, applicability to a wide range of substrates, high yields of products, environmental frie ...
biosynthesis, etc ; Arabidopsis; Jasminum sambac; stem elongation; zeatin; Show all 5 Subjects
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... MAIN CONCLUSION: Taken together, our results establish a reciprocal relationship between vine elongation and flowering, and reveal that GA is a positive signal for stem elogation but a negative regulator of flowering in this species. Vines or climbing plants exhibit vigorous vegetative shoot extension. GA have long been recognized as an important signal for seasonal stem elongation and flowering i ...
biosynthesis, etc ; endoplasmic reticulum; enzymology; glycosylation; mannosyltransferases; oligosaccharides; topology; Show all 7 Subjects
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... N-glycosylation is initiated from the biosynthesis of lipid-linked oligosaccharide (LLO) on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which is catalyzed by a series of Alg (asparagine-linked glycosylation) proteins. This review summarizes our recent studies on the enzymology of Alg mannosyltransferases (MTases). We also discuss the membrane topology and physiological importance of several ER cytosolic Alg p ...
biosynthesis, etc ; aminoacylation; bioactive properties; diterpenoids; indoles; nonribosomal peptides; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Decoration of the core scaffolds of indole diterpene (IDT) natural products is key to generating structural and bioactivity diversity. Aminoacylation as a tailoring step is rarely linked to terpene biosynthesis and is extremely rare in IDT biosynthesis. Through heterologous pathway reconstruction, we have illuminated the genetic and biochemical basis for the only reported examples of aminoacylatio ...