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Repurposing the 3-Isocyanobutanoic Acid Adenylation Enzyme SfaB for Versatile Amidation and Thioesterification
Zhu, Mengyi,Wang, Lijuan,He, Jing
supporting information, p. 2030 - 2035 (2020/11/30)
Genome mining of microbial natural products enables chemists not only to discover the bioactive molecules with novel skeletons, but also to identify the enzymes that catalyze diverse chemical reactions. Exploring the substrate promiscuity and catalytic mechanism of those biosynthetic enzymes facilitates the development of potential biocatalysts. SfaB is an acyl adenylate-forming enzyme that adenylates a unique building block, 3-isocyanobutanoic acid, in the biosynthetic pathway of the diisonitrile natural product SF2768 produced by Streptomyces thioluteus, and this AMP-ligase was demonstrated to accept a broad range of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs). Herein, we repurpose SfaB to catalyze amidation or thioesterification between those SCFAs and various amine or thiol nucleophiles, thereby providing an alternative enzymatic approach to prepare the corresponding amides and thioesters in vitro.
A convenient synthesis of difficult medium-sized cyclic peptides by Staudinger mediated ring-closure
Ha, Khanh,Monbaliu, Jean-Christophe M.,Williams, Byron C.,Pillai, Girinath G.,Ocampo, Charles E.,Zeller, Matthias,Stevens, Christian V.,Katritzky, Alan R.
supporting information, p. 8055 - 8058 (2012/11/07)
Novel, efficient and mild preparation of 7- and 8-membered cyclic di- and 10-membered cyclic tripeptides containing α-, β- or γ-amino acid residues is effected by a Staudinger-mediated ring closure. Medium-sized cyclic di- and tripeptides - recognized as
