Thermophilic phosphoribosyltransferases Thermus thermophilus HB27 in nucleotide synthesis

• Ilja V. Fateev,
• Ekaterina V. Sinitsina,
• Aiguzel U. Bikanasova,
• Maria A. Kostromina,
• Elena S. Tuzova,
• Larisa V. Esipova,
• Tatiana I. Muravyova,
• Alexei L. Kayushin,
• Irina D. Konstantinova and
• Roman S. Esipov

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3098–3105, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.289

• phosphoribosyltransferase; catalysis; enzyme; hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase; multi-enzyme cascade; nucleotides; thermophiles; Introduction Bacterial phosphoribosyltransferases are used in multi-enzymatic cascades that perform nucleotide synthesis de novo [1][2]. Recently, we reported on the possibility of cascade

Antibiotics from predatory bacteria

• Juliane Korp,
• María S. Vela Gurovic and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 594–607, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.58

• . Taxonomically, the genus Herpetosiphon belongs to the class Chloroflexi within the homonymous phylum. Members of this phylum are metabolically highly diverse, including dehalorespiring anaerobes besides aerobic CO-oxidizing thermophiles, chlorophototrophs and chemoheterotrophs [114][115][116]. Characteristic