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ReviewBiochemistry2018

Mini-Review: Ergothioneine and Ovothiol Biosyntheses, an Unprecedented Trans-Sulfur Strategy in Natural Product Biosynthesis.

Nathchar Naowarojna, Ronghai Cheng, Li Chen, Melissa Quill, Meiling Xu, Changming Zhao, Pinghua Liu

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Review in Biochemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Substrate Recognition by the Peptidyl-(ACS chemical biology · 2022
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  17. Rapid SERS Detection of Thiol-Containing Natural Products in Culturing Complex.International journal of analytical chemistry · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Nathchar NaowarojnaDepartment of Chemistry , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States.
Ronghai ChengDepartment of Chemistry , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States.
Li ChenDepartment of Chemistry , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States.
Melissa QuillDepartment of Chemistry , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States.
Meiling XuDepartment of Chemistry , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States.
Changming ZhaoDepartment of Chemistry , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States.
Pinghua LiuDepartment of Chemistry , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts 02215 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9768-559X
Boston University · US

Funding

Mechanistic studies of enzymes in isoprenoid biosynthesisR01GM093903 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI LIU, PINGHUA · 2010 to 2014
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093903
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As one of the most abundant elements on earth, sulfur is part of many small molecular metabolites and is key to their biological activities. Over the past few decades, some general strategies have been discovered for the incorporation of sulfur into natural products. In this review, we summarize recent efforts in elucidating the biosynthetic details for two sulfur-containing metabolites, ergothioneine and ovothiol. Their biosyntheses involve an unprecedented trans-sulfur strategy, a combination of a mononuclear non-heme iron enzyme-catalyzed oxidative C-S bond formation reaction and a PLP enzyme-mediated C-S lyase reaction.

Indexed as

Biological ProductsErgothioneineMethylhistidinesMolecular ConformationSulfurBiological ProductsErgothioneineMethylhistidinesovothiol CSulfur

Identifiers

PMID29589901
PMCPMC6008215
OpenAlexW2795122379

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