The shikimate pathway: gateway to metabolic diversity

Vikram V. Shende, Katherine D. Bauman and Bradley S. Moore

Nat. Prod. Rep., 2024, 41, 604
DOI: 10.1039/D3NP00037K

Chorismate- and isochorismate converting enzymes: versatile catalysts acting on an important metabolic node

Florian Hubrich, Michael Müller and Jennifer N. Andexer

Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 2441
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC08078K

Production of (hydroxy)benzoate-derived polyketides by engineered Pseudomonas with in situ extraction

Tobias Schwanemann, Esther A. Urban, Christian Eberlein, Jochem Gätgens, Daniela Rago, Nicolas Krink, Pablo I. Nikel, Hermann J. Heipieper, Benedikt Wynands and Nick Wierckx

Bioresource Technology, 2023, 388, 129741
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.129741

Advances in bacterial pathways for the biosynthesis of ubiquinone

Sophie Saphia Abby, Katayoun Kazemzadeh, Charles Vragniau, Ludovic Pelosi and Fabien Pierrel

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 2020, 1861, 148259
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2020.148259

The phytopathogen Xanthomonas campestris utilizes the divergently transcribed pobA/pobR locus for 4‐hydroxybenzoic acid recognition and degradation to promote virulence

Bo Chen, Rui‐Fang Li, Lian Zhou, Jia‐Hui Qiu, Kai Song, Ji‐Liang Tang and Ya‐Wen He

Molecular Microbiology, 2020, 114, 870
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14585

Engineering Pseudomonas taiwanensis for efficient chorismate-based production of mono- and dihydroxybenzoates

Franziska Kofler, Tobias Schwanemann, Nadine Teófilo da Silva, Nick Wierckx and Benedikt Wynands

Metabolic Engineering Communications, 2026, 22, e00273
DOI: 10.1016/j.mec.2026.e00273

Biosynthesis of depsipeptides with a 3-hydroxybenzoate moiety and selective anticancer activities involves a chorismatase

Yaoyao Shen, Fan Sun, Liu Zhang, Yijia Cheng, Hongrui Zhu, Shu-Ping Wang, Wei-Hua Jiao, Peter F. Leadlay, Yongjun Zhou and Hou-Wen Lin

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020, 295, 5509
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.010922