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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2015

Interfacing microbial styrene production with a biocompatible cyclopropanation reaction.

Stephen Wallace, Emily P Balskus

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephen WallaceDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (USA) http://scholar.harvard.edu/balskus.
Emily P BalskusDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (USA) http://scholar.harvard.edu/balskus. balskus@chemistry.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Biocompatible Chemistry for In Vivo Metabolite ModificationDP2GM105434 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI BALSKUS, EMILY PATRICIA · 2012 to 2012
$2.5M
NCCDPHP CDC HHS DP2 GM105434NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM105434
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The introduction of new reactivity into living organisms is a major challenge in synthetic biology. Despite an increasing interest in both the development of small-molecule catalysts that are compatible with aqueous media and the engineering of enzymes to perform new chemistry in vitro, the integration of non-native reactivity into metabolic pathways for small-molecule production has been underexplored. Herein we report a biocompatible iron(III) phthalocyanine catalyst capable of efficient olefin cyclopropanation in the presence of a living microorganism. By interfacing this catalyst with E. coli engineered to produce styrene, we synthesized non-natural phenyl cyclopropanes directly from D-glucose in single-vessel fermentations. This process is the first example of the combination of nonbiological carbene-transfer reactivity with cellular metabolism for small-molecule production.

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CatalysisCyclopropanesEscherichia coliFerric CompoundsGlucoseIndolesIsoindolesMethaneStyrenecarbeneCyclopropanesFerric CompoundsGlucoseIndolesIsoindolesMethanephthalocyanineStyreneironmetabolismphthalocyaninesynthetic biologysynthetic methods

Identifiers

PMID25925138
PMCPMC4494747
OpenAlexW2127909686

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