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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2022

From Tryptophan to Toxin: Nature's Convergent Biosynthetic Strategy to Aetokthonotoxin.

Sanjoy Adak, April L Lukowski, Rebecca J B Schäfer, Bradley S Moore

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
7.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sanjoy AdakCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2889-4272
April L LukowskiCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Rebecca J B SchäferCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Bradley S MooreCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4652-1253
Scripps Institution of Oceanography · US

Funding

Natural Sources and Microbial Transformation of Marine Halogenated PollutantsR01ES030316 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ALLEN, ERIC ELLSWORTH, MOORE, BRADLEY S · 2018 to 2022
$669k
Interrogating novel biosynthetic sources for the production of polybrominated diphenyl ethersF32ES033540 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI LUKOWSKI, APRIL · 2021 to 2023
$145k
NIEHS NIH HHS F32 ES033540NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES030316
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aetokthonotoxin (AETX) is a cyanobacterial neurotoxin that causes vacuolar myelinopathy, a neurological disease that is particularly deadly to bald eagles in the United States. The recently characterized AETX is structurally unique among cyanotoxins and is composed of a pentabrominated biindole nitrile. Herein we report the discovery of an efficient, five-enzyme biosynthetic pathway that the freshwater cyanobacterium

Indexed as

IndolesNeurotoxinsNitrilesCyanobacteriaCytochrome P-450 Enzyme SystemMultigene FamilyOxidoreductasesTryptophanTryptophanaseaetokthonotoxinCytochrome P-450 Enzyme SystemIndolesNeurotoxinsNitrilesOxidoreductasesTryptophanTryptophanasetryptophan halogenase

Identifiers

PMID35142504
PMCPMC9004672
OpenAlexW4210959336

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