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Org Lett
; 23(2): 497-502, 2021 01 15.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33370122
RESUMEN
Biflavonoids are pharmaceutically important compounds. Prenylation usually improves bioactivity; however, prenylated biflavonoids are rare in nature. Here, we report successful prenylation or geranylation of biflavonoids using fungal prenyltransferase CdpC3PT and its mutants. F253 was identified as a key residue related to donor selectivity, which enables the switching from utilizing DMAPP to GPP precisely at the same C-3''' site of biflavonoids. Furthermore, another residue W181 was discovered to generally increase prenylation activity toward biflavonoids.