Not just isolating small molecules anymore…
Posted by naturalproductman on January 17, 2013
Hideaki Oikawa and co-workers from Hokkaido University have reported in Organic Letters on the isolation of an enzyme that was known to produce some natural products. They expressed and purified the enzyme, incubated the enzyme in the presence of substrates: geranyl diphosphate (GPP) and isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP), and examined the products.
