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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2026

Discovery of a Structurally Distinct Acetylenase in the Biosynthesis of Mangotoxin.

Edward D Badding, Elijah N Kissman, Stefan V Velculescu, Michelle C Y Chang

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Heme oxygenase-like dimetal oxidases and oxygenases.Biochemical Society transactions · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Edward D BaddingDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Elijah N KissmanDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3278-8010
Stefan V VelculescuDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Michelle C Y ChangDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3747-7630

Funding

User Training and OutreachP30GM124169 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI Gregory L Hura · 2017 to 2026
$28.6M
Eliminating Critical Systematic Errors In Structural Biology With Next-Generation SimulationR01GM124149 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI HOLTON, JAMES M · 2017 to 2024
$2.5M
Discovery and Application of New HalogenasesR01GM134271 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI CHANG, MICHELLE C · 2020 to 2023
$1.5M
Discovery and application of new enzymes for amino acid and peptide modificationR35GM161243 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI MICHELLE C CHANG · 2026 to 2026
$451k
Metalloenzyme Discovery and Pathway Engineering to Functionalizethe Inert C-H bonds of Amino AcidsF32GM161039 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI BADDING, EDWARD D · 2025 to 2025
$76k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM161039NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM124169NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM124149NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM134271NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM161243
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amino acids, peptides, and proteins play pivotal roles in medicine, materials, and catalysis, with their functions largely dictated by their side-chain functionality. Recent studies have shown that heme oxygenase-like domain-containing oxidases (HDOs) catalyze a broad range of interesting chemical reactions on amino acids and their derivatives to produce structurally diverse target structures. Using a bioinformatics approach, the mangotoxin biosynthetic operon was found to house an unannotated HDO, MboA, along with a dedicated redox partner, MboB. We show that MboA catalyzes alkyne formation by iterative desaturations on the side-chain of a peptide substrate, where the transformation between alkene and alkyne is gated by MboB. The crystal structure of Fe(II)

Indexed as

Bacterial ToxinsFatty Acid DesaturasesAlkynesCrystallography, X-RayModels, MolecularacetylenaseAlkynesBacterial ToxinsFatty Acid Desaturasesmangotoxin, Pseudomonas syringae

Identifiers

PMID42048656
PMCPMC13185094

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