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A Widely Distributed Biosynthetic Cassette Is Responsible for Diverse Plant Side Chain Cross-Linked Cyclopeptides

A Widely Distributed Biosynthetic Cassette Is Responsible for Diverse Plant Side Chain Cross‐Linked Cyclopeptides

German version of a scholarly article

A common late-stage intermediate in catalysis by 2-hydroxyethyl-phosphonate dioxygenase and methylphosphonate synthase.

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

Algal neurotoxin biosynthesis repurposes the terpene cyclase structural fold into an N-prenyltransferase

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Bacterial Tetrabromopyrrole Debrominase Shares a Reductive Dehalogenation Strategy with Human Thyroid Deiodinase

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Biosynthesis of Guanitoxin Enables Global Environmental Detection in Freshwater Cyanobacteria

scientific article published in 2022

Biosynthesis of l-4-Chlorokynurenine, an Antidepressant Prodrug and a Non-Proteinogenic Amino Acid Found in Lipopeptide Antibiotics

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Biosynthesis of marine toxins

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

Biosynthesis of the Antibiotic Bicyclomycin in Soil and Pathogenic Bacteria

scientific article

Biosynthesis of the Plant‐Produced Toxin Strychnine Elucidated

scholarly article

Biosynthesis of the Plant‐Produced Toxin Strychnine Elucidated

German version of a scholarly article

Biosynthesis of the neurotoxin domoic acid in a bloom-forming diatom.

scientific article published in September 2018

Characterization of Two Late-Stage Enzymes Involved in Fosfomycin Biosynthesis in Pseudomonads.

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Characterization of the macrocyclase involved in the biosynthesis of RiPP cyclic peptides in plants.

scientific article

Chemical rescue and inhibition studies to determine the role of Arg301 in phosphite dehydrogenase

scientific article

Discovery of a new ATP-binding motif involved in peptidic azoline biosynthesis

scientific article

Domoic acid biosynthesis in the red alga suggests a complex evolutionary history for toxin production

scientific article published in 2022

Engineering yeast for industrial-level production of the antimalarial drug artemisinin

Genome mining methods to discover bioactive natural products

scientific article published in 2021

Guanitoxin, re-naming a cyanobacterial organophosphate toxin

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Mechanistic Understanding of Lanthipeptide Biosynthetic Enzymes

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Mechanistic and structural insights into a divergent PLP-dependent L-enduracididine cyclase from a toxic cyanobacterium

Molecular Basis for Resistance Against Phosphonate Antibiotics and Herbicides

scientific article

Molecular basis for enantioselective herbicide degradation imparted by aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenases in transgenic plants

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Preparation and Characterization of Tetrabromopyrrole Debrominase From Marine Proteobacteria.

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Targets Host Selenoproteins and Glutathione Biosynthesis for Knockdown via Proteolysis, Potentially Disrupting the Thioredoxin and Glutaredoxin Redox Cycles

Scalable Biosynthesis of the Seaweed Neurochemical, Kainic Acid

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Scalable Biosynthesis of the Seaweed Neurochemical, Kainic Acid

scientific article published in 2019

Steric complementarity directs sequence promiscuous leader binding in RiPP biosynthesis

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Structural Basis of Stereospecific Vanadium-Dependent Haloperoxidase Family Enzymes in Napyradiomycin Biosynthesis

scientific article published in 2022

Structural and biochemical basis for mannan utilization by Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus strain ATCC BAA-17.

scientific article

Structure and Function of Phosphonoacetaldehyde Dehydrogenase: The Missing Link in Phosphonoacetate Formation

scientific article

Structure of the Lasso Peptide Isopeptidase Identifies a Topology for Processing Threaded Substrates.

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Widely Distributed Biosynthetic Cassette Is Responsible for Diverse Plant Side-Chain-Cross-Linked Cyclopeptides

preprint

Xylan utilization in human gut commensal bacteria is orchestrated by unique modular organization of polysaccharide-degrading enzymes

scientific article