Production of new derivatives of prenylated indole-alkaloids in fungi
Hiroyuki Osada, Chemical Biology Department, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Saitama, Japan

The ABBA tune: Tailoring aromatic natural products in a PT-barrel
Stephane B. Richard, MEDIT SA, San Diego, CA, Monica Tello, 3P Biopharmaceuticals, Navarra, Spain, Tomohisa Kuzuyama, Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Lutz Heide, Pharmaceutical Biology, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany and Joseph P. Noel, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA

Prenyl transfer to aromatic substrates: Friedel-Crafts reactions in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in microorganisms
Lutz Heide, Pharmaceutical Institute, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany

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Functional characterization of Streptomyces ABBA prenyltransferases in the biosyntheses of naphthoquinone derivatives and novobiocin
Tomohisa Kuzuyama, Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Meroterpenoid biosynthesis in marine actinomycetes
Peter Bernhardt, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of California at San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

Prenylating enzymes—Structure, function, and new aspects of the catalytic mechanisms
Wolfgang Brandt¹, Julia Kufka¹, Remco Muntendam², Oliver Kayser², Diana Schulze¹, Eva Schulze¹ and Ludger Wessjohann¹, (1)Bioorganic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Halle, Halle, Germany, (2)Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy (GRIP), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands