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ReviewNatural product reports2013

Flavoenzymes: versatile catalysts in biosynthetic pathways.

Christopher T Walsh, Timothy A Wencewicz

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In one paragraph

Review in Natural product reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 128 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
128citing papers in PubMed
13.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

128 citing papers in PubMed, 364 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Peptidic Tryptophan Halogenation by a Promiscuous Flavin-Dependent Enzyme.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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68 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher T WalshDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA. christopher_walsh@hms.harvard.edu
Timothy A Wencewicz
Harvard University · USWalsh University · US

Funding

Modular Enzymatic Assembly Lines for AntibioticsR01GM020011 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WALSH, CHRISTOPHER T · 1985 to 2013
$8.2M
The Vancomycin Biosynthetic Assembly lineR01GM049338 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALSH, CHRISTOPHER T · 1993 to 2012
$6.2M
5S RRNA RECOGNITION BY TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIIAF32GM020011 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LEE, BRIAN M · 1999 to 2000
$39k
ENZYMATIC REACTION MECHANISMSR37GM020011 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WALSH, CHRISTOPHER A · 1986 to 1995
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NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM020011NIGMS NIH HHS GM20011NIGMS NIH HHS GM49338NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM020011NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM049338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Riboflavin-based coenzymes, tightly bound to enzymes catalyzing substrate oxidations and reductions, enable an enormous range of chemical transformations in biosynthetic pathways. Flavoenzymes catalyze substrate oxidations involving amine and alcohol oxidations and desaturations to olefins, the latter setting up Diels-Alder cyclizations in lovastatin and solanapyrone biosyntheses. Both C(4a) and N(5) of the flavin coenzymes are sites for covalent adduct formation. For example, the reactivity of dihydroflavins with molecular oxygen leads to flavin-4a-OOH adducts which then carry out a diverse range of oxygen transfers, including Baeyer-Villiger type ring expansions, olefin epoxidations, halogenations via transient HOCl generation, and an oxidative Favorskii rerrangement during enterocin assembly.

Indexed as

Biosynthetic PathwaysCatalysisFlavin MononucleotideHumansMolecular StructureOxidoreductasesRiboflavinFlavin MononucleotideOxidoreductasesRiboflavin

Identifiers

PMID23051833
PMCPMC3518583
OpenAlexW2130775475

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