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A Glycopeptidyl-Glutamate Epimerase for Bacterial Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

A fungal prenyltransferase catalyzes the regular di-prenylation at positions 20 and 21 of paxilline.

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

A peptide ligase and the ribosome cooperate to synthesize the peptide pheganomycin

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Amino Acid Residues Recognizing Isomeric Glutamate Substrates in UDP- N-acetylmuramic acid-l-alanine-glutamate Synthetases

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

An alternative menaquinone biosynthetic pathway operating in microorganisms: an attractive target for drug discovery to pathogenic Helicobacter and Chlamydia strains.

scientific article published on 26 June 2009

An enzyme catalyzing O-prenylation of the glucose moiety of fusicoccin A, a diterpene glucoside produced by the fungus Phomopsis amygdali

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Analysis of the Lactobacillus metabolic pathway.

scientific article published on 3 September 2010

Aplasmomycin and boromycin are specific inhibitors of the futalosine pathway

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

Biosynthesis of Oligopeptides Using ATP-Grasp Enzymes

scientific article published on 9 May 2017

Biosynthesis of Shearinine: Diversification of a Tandem Prenyl Moiety of Fungal Indole Diterpenes.

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Biosynthesis of the Carbonylmethylene Structure Found in the Ketomemicin Class of Pseudotripeptides.

scientific article published on 18 January 2017

Biosynthetic Gene Cluster of a d-Tryptophan-Containing Lasso Peptide, MS-271

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Biosynthetic gene-based secondary metabolite screening: a new diterpene, methyl phomopsenonate, from the fungus Phomopsis amygdali.

scientific article published in February 2009

Branched fatty acids inhibit the biosynthesis of menaquinone in Helicobacter pylori

scientific article published on November 17, 2010

Cellulose complementing factor (Ccp) is a new member of the cellulose synthase complex (terminal complex) in Acetobacter xylinum.

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

Characterization of three amidinotransferases involved in the biosynthesis of ketomemicins

scientific article published in June 2016

Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) incorporating 2-hydroxybutyrate by wild-type class I PHA synthase from Ralstonia eutropha

scientific article published on 11 June 2011

Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence of the Putative Polyketide Synthase Genes for Pradimicin Biosynthesis fromActinomadura hibisca

scientific article published on September 1, 1997

Control Mechanism for Carbon-Chain Length in Polyunsaturated Fatty-Acid Synthases

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Control Mechanism for cis Double-Bond Formation by Polyunsaturated Fatty-Acid Synthases

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Convergent strategies in biosynthesis

scientific article published on 06 May 2011

Crystallization of Arthrobacter sp. strain 1C N-(1-D-carboxyethyl)-L- norvaline dehydrogenase and its complex with NAD+

Dioxygenases, key enzymes to determine the aglycon structures of fusicoccin and brassicicene, diterpene compounds produced by fungi

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Diversity of the early step of the futalosine pathway

scientific article published on November 22, 2010

Enhanced production of polyunsaturated fatty acids by enzyme engineering of tandem acyl carrier proteins

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

Enzymatic Formation of a Skipped Methyl-Substituted Octaprenyl Side Chain of Longestin (KS-505a): Involvement of Homo-IPP as a Common Extender Unit

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Enzymatic properties of futalosine hydrolase, an enzyme essential to a newly identified menaquinone biosynthetic pathway

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Ergothioneine production with Aspergillus oryzae

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Ergothioneine protects Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) from oxidative stresses.

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Exploring Peptide Ligase Orthologs in Actinobacteria-Discovery of Pseudopeptide Natural Products, Ketomemicins

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Functional analyses of cytochrome P450 genes responsible for the early steps of brassicicene C biosynthesis

scientific article published on 08 August 2009

Functional analysis of methyltransferases participating in streptothricin-related antibiotic biosynthesis.

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Gene Cloning, Nucleotide Sequencing, and Purification and Characterization of the Low-Specificity l -Threonine Aldolase from Pseudomonas sp. Strain NCIMB 10558

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Gene cloning, biochemical characterization and physiological role of a thermostable low‐specificity L‐threonine aldolase from Escherichia coli

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

Gram-scale fermentative production of ergothioneine driven by overproduction of cysteine in Escherichia coli

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Heterologous and High Production of Ergothioneine in Escherichia coli

scientific article published on 25 December 2017

Identification and analysis of the resorcinomycin biosynthetic gene cluster

scientific article published on 02 June 2015

Identification of actinomycin D as a specific inhibitor of the alternative pathway of peptidoglycan biosynthesis

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Identification of the peptide epimerase MslH responsible for d-amino acid introduction at the C-terminus of ribosomal peptides

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Identification of tirandamycins as specific inhibitors of the futalosine pathway.

scientific article published in March 2017

In vitro characterization of MitE and MitB: Formation of N-acetylglucosaminyl-3-amino-5-hydroxybenzoyl-MmcB as a key intermediate in the biosynthesis of antitumor antibiotic mitomycins

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Involvement of Peptide Epimerization in Poly-γ-glutamic Acid Biosynthesis

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Isolation of a thermotolerant bacterium producing medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Menaquinone biosyntheses in microorganisms.

scientific article published in January 2012

Menaquinone biosynthesis: formation of aminofutalosine requires a unique radical SAM enzyme

scientific article published on 07 October 2013

Molecular breeding of a fungus producing a precursor diterpene suitable for semi-synthesis by dissection of the biosynthetic machinery

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N-Phenylacetylation and Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases with Substrate Promiscuity for Biosynthesis of Heptapeptide Variants, JBIR-78 and JBIR-95.

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New gene responsible for para-aminobenzoate biosynthesis.

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

Novel enzymology in futalosine-dependent menaquinone biosynthesis

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Off-Loading Mechanism of Products in Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Synthases

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Peptide Epimerization Machineries Found in Microorganisms.

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

Rapid reconstitution of biosynthetic machinery for fungal metabolites in Aspergillus oryzae: total biosynthesis of aflatrem.

scientific article published in August 2014

Reconstitution of Biosynthetic Machinery for Indole-Diterpene Paxilline in Aspergillus oryzae

scientific article published on January 15, 2013

Regiospecificities and prenylation mode specificities of the fungal indole diterpene prenyltransferases AtmD and PaxD.

scientific article published on 13 September 2013

Reveromycin A biosynthesis uses RevG and RevJ for stereospecific spiroacetal formation.

scientific article published on 5 June 2011

Searching for potent and specific antibiotics against pathogenic Helicobacter and Campylobacter strains

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Self cloning in Micromonospora olivasterospora of fms genes for fortimicin A (astromicin) biosynthesis

scientific article published on 01 March 1992

Shotgun Cloning and Characterization of the Thymidylate Synthase‐Encoding Gene from Mycobacterium bovis BCG

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Structure and activity relationships of the anti-Mycobacterium antibiotics resorcinomycin and pheganomycin.

scientific article published on 26 August 2015

Subtle Control of Carbon Chain Length in Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Synthases

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Synthesis of Acylborons by Ozonolysis of Alkenylboronates: Preparation of an Enantioenriched Amino Acid Acylboronate.

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Total Biosynthesis of Brassicicenes: Identification of a Key Enzyme for Skeletal Diversification

scientific article published on 19 September 2018