Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

A biocatalytic hydroxylation-enabled unified approach to C19-hydroxylated steroids

  • Junlin Wang,
  • Yanan Zhang,
  • Huanhuan Liu,
  • Yong Shang,
  • Linjun Zhou,
  • Penglin Wei,
  • Wen-Bing Yin,
  • Zixin Deng,
  • Xudong Qu,
  • Qianghui Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11344-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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C19 hydroxylation is a unique feature of some bioactive steroids. Here, the authors developed a direct C19 hydroxylation approach to scalably access 19-OH-cortexolone in the host T. cucumeris and then converted the product into various pharmaceutically useful products via chemical synthesis.