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ReviewNatural product reports2018

Recent examples of α-ketoglutarate-dependent mononuclear non-haem iron enzymes in natural product biosyntheses.

Shu-Shan Gao, Nathchar Naowarojna, Ronghai Cheng, Xueting Liu, Pinghua Liu

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Review in Natural product reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers.

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77 citing papers in PubMed, 190 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Shu-Shan GaoState Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Nathchar NaowarojnaDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA. pinghua@bu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7952-3458
Ronghai ChengDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA. pinghua@bu.edu.
Xueting LiuDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA. pinghua@bu.edu and State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. liuxueting@ecust.edu.cn.
Pinghua LiuDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA. pinghua@bu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9768-559X
Boston University · USChinese Academy of Sciences · CN

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

Covering: up to 2018 α-Ketoglutarate (αKG, also known as 2-oxoglutarate)-dependent mononuclear non-haem iron (αKG-NHFe) enzymes catalyze a wide range of biochemical reactions, including hydroxylation, ring fragmentation, C-C bond cleavage, epimerization, desaturation, endoperoxidation and heterocycle formation. These enzymes utilize iron(ii) as the metallo-cofactor and αKG as the co-substrate. Herein, we summarize several novel αKG-NHFe enzymes involved in natural product biosyntheses discovered in recent years, including halogenation reactions, amino acid modifications and tailoring reactions in the biosynthesis of terpenes, lipids, fatty acids and phosphonates. We also conducted a survey of the currently available structures of αKG-NHFe enzymes, in which αKG binds to the metallo-centre bidentately through either a proximal- or distal-type binding mode. Future structure-function and structure-reactivity relationship investigations will provide crucial information regarding how activities in this large class of enzymes have been fine-tuned in nature.

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Amino AcidsBiological ProductsCarnitineCarrier ProteinsCyclopropanesEnzymesEthylenesHalogenationHemeIronKetoglutaric AcidsAmino AcidsBiological ProductsCarnitineCarrier ProteinsCyclopropanesEnzymesethyleneEthylenesHemeIronKetoglutaric Acids

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PMID29932179
PMCPMC6093783
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