J. Rohr

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Angucyclines: Biosynthesis, mode-of-action, new natural products, and synthesis.
Covering: 1997 to 2010. The angucycline group is the largest group of type II PKS-engineered natural products, rich in biological activities and chemical scaffolds. This stimulated synthetic… Expand
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Modification of Post-PKS Tailoring Steps Through Combinatorial Biosynthesis.
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The biosynthetic gene cluster for the antitumor rebeccamycin: characterization and generation of indolocarbazole derivatives.
Rebeccamycin, a halogenated natural product of the indolocarbazole family, is produced by Saccharothrix aerocolonigenes ATCC39243. Several rebeccamycin analogues, which target DNA topoisomerase I or… Expand
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An audience response system strategy to improve student motivation, attention, and feedback.
OBJECTIVE To implement an audience response system (ARS) to improve student motivation and attention during lectures and provide immediate feedback to the instructor concerning student understanding… Expand
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Combinatorial biosynthesis of antitumor indolocarbazole compounds.
Rebeccamycin and staurosporine are natural products with antitumor properties, which belong to the family of indolocarbazole alkaloids. An intense effort currently exists for the generation of… Expand
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Mithramycin SK, a novel antitumor drug with improved therapeutic index, mithramycin SA, and demycarosyl-mithramycin SK: three new products generated in the mithramycin producer Streptomyces…
To gain initial structure-activity relationships regarding the highly functionalized pentyl side chain attached at C-3 of mithramycin (MTM), we focused on a post-polyketide synthase (post-PKS)… Expand
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Biosynthesis of the antitumor chromomycin A3 in Streptomyces griseus: analysis of the gene cluster and rational design of novel chromomycin analogs.
The biosynthetic gene cluster of the aureolic acid type antitumor drug chromomycin A3 from S. griseus subsp. griseus has been identified and characterized. It spans 43 kb and contains 36 genes… Expand
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Deciphering the late steps in the biosynthesis of the anti‐tumour indolocarbazole staurosporine: sugar donor substrate flexibility of the StaG glycosyltransferase
The indolocarbazole staurosporine is a potent inhibitor of a variety of protein kinases. It contains a sugar moiety attached through C‐N linkages to both indole nitrogen atoms of the indolocarbazole… Expand
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Arginine-rhamnosylation as new strategy to activate translation elongation factor P.
Ribosome stalling at polyproline stretches is common and fundamental. In bacteria, translation elongation factor P (EF-P) rescues such stalled ribosomes, but only when it is post-translationally… Expand
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Identification of two genes from Streptomyces argillaceus encoding glycosyltransferases involved in transfer of a disaccharide during biosynthesis of the antitumor drug mithramycin.
Mithramycin is an antitumor polyketide drug produced by Streptomyces argillaceus that contains two deoxysugar chains, a disaccharide consisting of two D-olivoses and a trisaccharide consisting of a… Expand
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