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Divergent Biosynthesis of C-Nucleoside Minimycin and Indigoidine in Bacteria

iScience, 2019
Summary: Minimycin (MIN) is a C-nucleoside antibiotic structurally related to pseudouridine, and indigoidine is a naturally occurring blue pigment produced by diverse bacteria.
Liyuan Kong, Gudan Xu, Xiaoqin Liu, Jingwen Wang, Zenglin Tang, You-Sheng Cai, Kun Shen, Weixin Tao, Yu Zheng, Zixin Deng, Neil P.J. Price, Wenqing Chen   +11 more
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Erythropoietin modulates hepatic inflammation, glucose homeostasis, and soluble epoxide hydrolase and epoxides in high‐fat diet‐induced obese mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Erythropoietin administration suppresses hepatic soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression, leading to increased CYP‐derived epoxides. This is associated with a shift in hepatic macrophage polarization characterized by reduced M1 markers and increased M2 markers, along with reduced hepatic inflammation, suppressed hepatic lipogenesis, and attenuated ...
Takeshi Goda, Satoru Sugimoto, Chiharu Cho, Madoka Konishi, Nozomi Inoue, Satoshi Miyagaki, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Takuro Okamura, Masahide Hamaguchi, Hisakazu Nakajima, Michiaki Fukui, Masakazu Shinohara, Tomoko Iehara   +12 more
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Advances in the Molecular Modification of Microbial ω-Transaminases for Asymmetric Synthesis of Bulky Chiral Amines

Microorganisms
ω-Transaminases are biocatalysts capable of asymmetrically synthesizing high-value chiral amines through the reductive amination of carbonyl compounds, and they are ubiquitously distributed across diverse microorganisms.
Xinxing Gao, Qingming He, Hailong Chen, Wangshui Cai, Long Xu, Xin Zhang, Nianqing Zhu, Shoushuai Feng   +7 more
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Iron homeostasis disruption and lipid peroxidation in skeletal muscle during short‐term immobilization

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
14‐day casting‐induced immobilization reduced gastrocnemius muscle mass and increased non‐heme iron and ferritin heavy chain levels. Despite iron accumulation, transferrin receptor 1 and iron regulatory protein 2 were paradoxically upregulated. Lipid peroxidation was elevated without compensatory antioxidant responses.
Haruka Yokogawa, Kazuhiko Higashida, Naoya Nakai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thiamine Acquisition Strategies Impact Metabolism and Competition in the Gut Microbe Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. [PDF]

, 2017
Thiamine (vitamin B1) is an essential cofactor for all organisms. Humans primarily acquire thiamine through their diet, and thiamine deficiencies have adverse neurological effects.
Costliow, Zachary A, Degnan, Patrick H
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Combined 5‐aminolevulinic acid and ferric ammonium citrate treatment promotes hair follicle growth by activating dermal papilla cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
5‐Aminolevulinic acid combined with ferric ammonium citrate (5‐ALA/FAC) stimulates dermal papilla cell activity and promotes hair follicle growth. The treatment enhances ERK and AKT signaling, increases hair‐inductive gene expression, and restores dermal papilla function suppressed by dihydrotestosterone and oxidative stress, resulting in enhanced hair
Han‐Wook Ryu, Eok‐Soo Oh, Sewoon Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil of and Free Radical Scavenging Activity of the Oil and Crude Extracts

Natural Product Communications, 2014
The chemical composition of the essential oil from roots and rhizomes of Ligularia hodgsonii was analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectrometry (MS). Forty-seven components were identified, representing 77.0% of the total oil.
Zihao Zhou, Jun Tang, Xueping Song
doaj   +1 more source

Evolutionarily divergent DUF4465 domains have a common vitamin B12‐binding function

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We show that DUF4465 family proteins, widespread across bacteria from gut microbiomes, hydrothermal vents, and soil, share a common vitamin B12‐binding function. These augmented β‐jellyroll proteins bind vitamin B12 via extended loops. Our findings establish sequence‐diverse DUF4465 proteins as a widespread class of B12‐binding proteins, highlighting ...
Charlea Clarke, Michal Banasik, Rokas Juodeikis, Martin J. Warren, Richard W. Pickersgill   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iron-sulphur protein catalysed [4+2] cycloadditions in natural product biosynthesis

Nature Communications
To the best of our knowledge, enzymes that catalyse intramolecular Diels-Alder ([4+2] cycloaddition) reactions are frequently reported in natural product biosynthesis; however, no native enzymes utilising Lewis acid catalysis have been reported ...
Yu Zheng, Katsuyuki Sakai, Kohei Watanabe, Hiroshi Takagi, Yumi Sato-Shiozaki, Yuko Misumi, Yohei Miyanoiri, Genji Kurisu, Toshihiko Nogawa, Ryo Takita, Shunji Takahashi   +10 more
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Intercompartmental communication in senescence

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Senescent cells experience structural changes in the plasma membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, lysosomes, nucleus, and cytoskeleton. These alterations disrupt crosstalk among cellular compartments, impairing vesicular trafficking, contact sites, and molecular flow.
Krystyna Mazan‐Mamczarz, Eleanor J. Wind, Jixiang Leng, Myriam Gorospe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source