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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

Exquisite Complex Reaction Cascade in the Natural 1,2,4-Triazine Assembly.

Yiyuan Cheng, Haoran Pang, Wenjun Zhang

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yiyuan ChengDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID 0009-0007-3697-7859
Haoran PangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Wenjun ZhangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9348-972X

Funding

Biosynthesis of Unusual Bio-Orthogonal Functionalities in Natural ProductsR35GM153289 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Wenjun Zhang · 2024 to 2026
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM153289
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

1,2,4-Triazine ring is a scaffold widely found in biologically active compounds, but how nature makes it remains enigmatic. In this study, we unveil the complex enzymatic and nonenzymatic cascade reactions that assemble the 1,2,4-triazine moiety found in the structures of the natural products pseudoiodinine and toxoflavin. Through biochemical studies, isotope labeling, and the application of substrate analogues, we propose a plausible pathway for the 1,2,4-triazine assembly from a common precursor in riboflavin biosynthesis. This process involves four two-electron oxidation steps, C-N bond formation, decarboxylation, and the N-N bond forming step catalyzed by a metal-dependent WD40-repeat (WDR) protein. This study thus not only provides the first biocatalytic route for the 1,2,4-triazine assembly but also identifies a previously unrecognized catalytic role of a large WDR protein family.

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Biological ProductsTriazinesMolecular StructureOxidation-Reduction1,2,4-triazineBiological ProductsTriazines

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PMID40156852
PMCPMC11981835

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