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ReviewAnnual review of chemical and biomolecular engineering2022

Biosynthesis of Isonitrile- and Alkyne-Containing Natural Products.

Antonio Del Rio Flores, Colin C Barber, Maanasa Narayanamoorthy, Di Gu, Yuanbo Shen, Wenjun Zhang

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In one paragraph

Review in Annual review of chemical and biomolecular engineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Copper-chelating natural products.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
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  6. Biosynthesis of isonitrile lipopeptides.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2024
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Antonio Del Rio FloresDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; email: antonio_delrioflores@berkeley.edu, wjzhang@berkeley.edu.
Colin C BarberDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; email: cbarber@berkeley.edu.
Maanasa NarayanamoorthyDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; email: mrnaraya@berkeley.edu, dgu@berkeley.edu, yuanbo792@berkeley.edu.
Di GuDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; email: mrnaraya@berkeley.edu, dgu@berkeley.edu, yuanbo792@berkeley.edu.
Yuanbo ShenDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; email: mrnaraya@berkeley.edu, dgu@berkeley.edu, yuanbo792@berkeley.edu.
Wenjun ZhangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; email: antonio_delrioflores@berkeley.edu, wjzhang@berkeley.edu.
University of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

In Situ Natural Product Labeling and ApplicationsDP2AT009148 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI ZHANG, WENJUN · 2015 to 2020
$2.8M
Biosynthesis of unusual bio-orthogonal functionalities in natural productsR01GM136758 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI ZHANG, WENJUN · 2020 to 2023
$1.5M
NCCIH NIH HHS DP2 AT009148NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM136758
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural products are a diverse class of biologically produced compounds that participate in fundamental biological processes such as cell signaling, nutrient acquisition, and interference competition. Unique triple-bond functionalities like isonitriles and alkynes often drive bioactivity and may serve as indicators of novel chemical logic and enzymatic machinery. Yet, the biosynthetic underpinnings of these groups remain only partially understood, constraining the opportunity to rationally engineer biomolecules with these functionalities for applications in pharmaceuticals, bioorthogonal chemistry, and other value-added chemical processes. Here, we focus our review on characterized biosynthetic pathways for isonitrile and alkyne functionalities, their bioorthogonal transformations, and prospects for engineering their biosynthetic machinery for biotechnological applications.

Indexed as

AlkynesBiological ProductsBiosynthetic PathwaysAlkynesBiological Productsbioorthogonal chemistrybiosynthesisenzymologynatural products

Identifiers

PMID35236086
PMCPMC9811556
OpenAlexW4214916774

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Registered trials

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