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ReviewBioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters2023

Crosstalk between primary and secondary metabolism: Interconnected fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis in prokaryotes.

Anna-Kay R West, Constance B Bailey

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Review in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Bioactive Polyketides fromMarine drugs · 2025
    Review
  10. Microbial genomics · 2024
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Anna-Kay R WestDepartment of Chemistry, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
Constance B BaileyDepartment of Chemistry, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA; School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales 2006, Australia. Electronic address: constance.bailey@sydney.edu.au.
The University of Sydney · AUUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville · US

Funding

Mechanistic Studies of the Functional Consequences of Heterologous Expression of Actinomycetal MegasynthasesR15GM146192 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE · PI BACCILE, JOSHUA A · 2022 to 2022
$432k
NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM146192
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In primary metabolism, fatty acid synthases (FASs) biosynthesize fatty acids via sequential Claisen-like condensations of malonyl-CoA followed by reductive processing. Likewise, polyketide synthases (PKSs) share biosynthetic logic with FAS which includes utilizing the same precursors and cofactors. However, PKS biosynthesize structurally diverse, complex secondary metabolites, many of which are pharmaceutically relevant. This digest covers examples of interconnected biosynthesis between primary and secondary metabolism in fatty acid and polyketide metabolism. Taken together, further understanding the biosynthetic linkage between polyketide biosynthesis and fatty acid biosynthesis may lead to improved discovery and production of novel drug leads from polyketide metabolites.

Indexed as

Fatty AcidsPolyketidesFatty Acid SynthasesPolyketide SynthasesSecondary MetabolismFatty AcidsFatty Acid SynthasesPolyketidesPolyketide SynthasesBiosynthesisFatty acid synthaseMicrobial metabolismPolyketide synthase

Identifiers

PMID37328038
PMCPMC11239236
OpenAlexW4380742679

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