Vitamin B is a vital nutrient for the normal functioning of many metabolic processes. It has a characteristic corrinoid ring structure with a cobalt ion. Its complex chemical structure demands 30 enzyme-catalyzed steps for synthesis. Deficiency of th...
Fungal secondary metabolites (SMs) represent a vast reservoir of bioactive compounds with immense therapeutic, agricultural, and industrial potential. These small molecules, including antibiotics, immunosuppressants, and anticancer agents, are synthe...
Elucidating plant biosynthetic pathways is key to advancing a sustainable bioeconomy by enabling access to complex natural products through synthetic biology. Despite progress from genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic approaches, much multiomics ...
Retrosynthesis aims to efficiently plan the synthesis of desirable chemicals by strategically breaking down molecules into readily available building block compounds. Having a long history in chemistry, retro-biosynthesis has also been used in the fi...
Plant bioactives hold immense potential in the medicine and food industry. The recent advancements in omics applied in deciphering specialized metabolic pathways underscore the importance of high-quality genome releases and the wealth of data in meta...
The rapid development of synthetic biology has significantly improved the capabilities of mono-culture systems in converting different substrates into various value-added bio-chemicals through metabolic engineering. However, overexpression of biosynt...
The remarkable metabolic diversity observed in nature has provided a foundation for sustainable production of a wide array of valuable molecules. However, transferring the biosynthetic pathway to the desired host often runs into inherent failures tha...
Isopentyldiol (IPDO) is an important raw material in the cosmetic industry. So far, IPDO is exclusively produced through chemical synthesis. Growing interest in natural personal care products has inspired the quest to develop a biobased process. We p...
The complete biosynthetic pathways are unknown for most natural products (NPs), it is thus valuable to make computer-aided bio-retrosynthesis predictions. Here, a navigable and user-friendly toolkit, BioNavi-NP, is developed to predict the biosynthet...
Biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in bacterial genomes code for important small molecules and secondary metabolites. Based on the validated BGCs and the corresponding sequences of protein family domains (Pfams), Pfam functions and clan information, w...
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