Key Features
This new volume continues the legacy of this premier serial
Contains quality chapters authored by leaders in the field
The second of 3 volumes it has chapters on such topics as biological chlorination, bromination and iodination, and phylogenetic approaches to natural product structure prediction
Description
This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial by containing quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. The second of 3 volumes covering Natural product biosynthesis by microorganisms and plants.
Natural Product Biosynthesis by Microorganisms and Plants Part B, 1st Edition
- In vivo production of thiopeptide variants
Feifei Zhang and Wendy L. Kelly
- Microviridin biosynthesis
Thomas K. Hemscheidt
- Cyclotide isolation and characterization
David J. Craik, Sonia Troeira Henriques, Joshua S. Mylne and Conan K. Wang
- Ribosomally-encoded cyclic peptide toxins from mushrooms
Jonathan Walton, Hong Luo, and Heather Hallen-Adams
- The Pictet-Spengler mechanism involved in the biosynthesis of tetrahydroisoquinoline antitumor antibiotics: novel function for a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase
Kento Koketsu, Atsushi Minami, Kenji Watanabe, Hiroki Oguri and Hideaki Oikawa
- Discovery and biosynthesis of phosphonate and phosphinate natural products
Spencer C. Peck, Jiangtao Gao, and Wilfred A. van der Donk
- RlmN and AtsB as models for the overproduction and characterization of radical SAM proteins
Nicholas D. Lanz, Tyler, L. Grove, Camelia Gogonea, Carsten Krebs, and Squire J. Booker
- Fe(II)-dependent, uridine-5’-monophosphate a-ketoglutarate dioxygenases in the synthesis of 5’-modified nucleosides
Zhaoyong Yang, Jason Unrine, Koichi Nonaka, and Steven G. Van Lanen
- Heme-dependent Tailoring Enzymes in Natural Product Biosynthesis: Spectroscopic Characterisation of the L-tryptophan-nitrating Cytochrome P450 TxtE
S. M. Barry and Greg Challis
- Oxidative Tailoring Reactions Catalysed by Non-heme Iron-dependent Enzymes: Streptorubin B Biosynthesis as an Example
Paulina K. Sydor and Greg Challis
- The rare fluorinated natural products and biotechnological prospects for fluorine enzymology
K. K. Jason Chan and David O’Hagan
- Enzymatic chlorination and bromination
Karl-Heinz van Pée
- Prenyltransferases of the dimethylallyltryptophan synthase superfamily
Xia Yu and Shu-Ming Li
- Serine carboxypeptidase-like acyltransferases from plants
Sam T. Mugford and Carsten Milkowski
- 4-Methylideneimidazole-5-one-containing aminomutases in enediyne biosynthesis
Jeremy R. Lohman and Ben Shen
- Tailoring enzymes acting on carrier protein-tethered substrates in natural product biosynthesis
Shuangjun Lin, Tingting Huang, and Ben Shen
- High-throughput colorimetric assays for nucleotide sugar formation and glycosyl transfer
Richard W. Gantt and Jon S. Thorson
