Marine Enzymes and Specialized Metabolism - Part A

Section I: Marine Cyanobacteria, Enzymes and Pathways

1. Collection, Culturing, and Genome Analyses of Tropical Marine Filamentous Benthic Cyanobacteria
Nathan A. Moss, Tiago Leao, Evgenia Glukhov, Lena Gerwick and William H. Gerwick

2. PKS–NRPS Enzymology and Structural Biology: Considerations in Protein Production
Meredith A. Skiba, Finn P. Maloney, Qingyun Dan, Amy E. Fraley, Courtney C. Aldrich, Janet L. Smith and W. Clay Brown

3. Terminal Alkyne Biosynthesis in Marine Microbes
Xuejun Zhu and Wenjun Zhang

4. The Biochemistry and Structural Biology of Cyanobactin Biosynthetic Enzymes
Wenjia Gu, Shi-Hui Dong, Snigdha Sarkar, Satish K. Nair and Eric W. Schmidt

5. The Enzymology of Prochlorosin Biosynthesis
Silvia C. Bobeica and Wilfred A. van der Donk

Section II: Biosynthesis by Bacterial Symbionts of Marine Invertebrate Animals

6. Chemoenzymatic Dissection of Polyketide β-Branching in the Bryostatin Pathway
Samuel T. Slocum, Andrew N. Lowell, Ashootosh N. Tripathi, Vikram V. Shende, Janet L. Smith and David H. Sherman

7. Radical S-Adenosylmethionine Peptide Epimerases: Detection of Activity and Characterization of d-Amino Acid Products
Brandon I. Morinaka, Anna L. Vagstad and Jörn Piel

8. Cobalamin-Dependent C-Methyltransferases From Marine Microbes: Accessibility via Rhizobia Expression
Michael F. Freeman

9. Biosynthetic Insights of Calyculin- and Misakinolide-Type Compounds in "Candidatus Entotheonella sp."
Agustinus R. Uria, Jörn Piel and Toshiyuki Wakimoto

Section III: Natural Product Biosynthetic Enzymology of Marine Bacteria and Fungi

10. Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Starting Materials and Characterization of Halogenases Requiring Acyl Carrier Protein-Tethered Substrates
Hem R. Thapa, Andrew J. Lail, Neha Garg and Vinayak Agarwal

11. Preparation, Assay, and Application of Chlorinase SalL for the Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine and Analogs
Tony D. Davis, Sylvia Kunakom, Michael D. Burkart and Alessandra S. Eustaquio

12. In Vitro Analysis of Cyanobacterial Nonheme Iron-Dependent Aliphatic Halogenases WelO5 and AmbO5
Xinyu Liu

13. Characterization and Biochemical Assays of Streptomyces Vanadium-Dependent Chloroperoxidases
Shaun M.K. McKinnie, Zachary D. Miles and Bradley S. Moore

14. Unusual "Head-to-Torso" Coupling of Terpene Precursors as a New Strategy for the Structural Diversification of Natural Products
Robin Teufel

15. Identification of Enzymes Involved in Sesterterpene Biosynthesis in Marine Fungi
Jingjing Yan, Jingjing Guo, Wei Yuan, Wanying Mai and Kui Hong

16. Assaying Oxidative Coupling Activity of CYP450 Enzymes
Vinayak Agarwal

17. Preparation and Characterization of the Favorskiiase Flavoprotein EncM and Its Distinctive Flavin-N5-Oxide Cofactor
Robin Teufel