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Biocatalytic modification of natural products
1Istituto di Biocatalisi e Riconoscimento Molecolare, CNR, Milano, Italy. Rivas@ico.mi.cnr.it
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
|April 3, 2001
Abstract:
Natural products are ideal training compounds for enzymatic catalysis. New transformations have become possible on a preparative scale thanks to molecular biology, which has made many new enzymes available. Additionally, new synthetic pathways have been developed to regenerate expensive cofactors in situ and to improve enzyme selectivity.