Ikuro Abe

The University of Tokyo — Japan

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis(242), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis(194), Plant Gene Expression Analysis(67), Fungal Biology and Applications(48), Marine Sponges and Natural Products(47)

Publications608 total

A protease repurposed for thiotemplated amide synthesis
Chem·2026
Structural and Mechanistic Basis for Orthoester Formation by αKG-Free Endoperoxide Isomerase in Novofumigatonin Biosynthesis
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2025
Open the Rings to Close the Cycle: The Complete Degradation of Riboflavin Returns Simple Building Blocks Back to Nature
ACS Central Science·2025Open Access
Chemical richness and diversity of uncultivated ‘Entotheonella’ symbionts in marine sponges
Nature Chemical Biology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Mechanistic and Structural Analyses of Non-Heme Iron Enzyme TqaM for α-Tertiary Amino Acid Synthesis
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2025
Unusual enzyme reactions in natural product biosynthesis
Phytochemistry Letters·2025
Structural Basis for 3-Amino-3-carboxypropyl Transfer in Nocardicin Biosynthesis
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2025· 1 cited
Biosynthesis of the Thiofuranose Core in Albomycin Requires a Versatile Enzyme AbmG That Catalyzes Net Dehydration via Cryptic Phosphorylation
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Elucidating the Biosynthetic Pathway and Mechanisms of Retrochalcones
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2025
Radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine FeS cluster implicated as the sulfur donor during albomycin biosynthesis
Nature Catalysis·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Reshaping the Substrate-Binding Pocket of Leucine Dehydrogenase for Efficient Synthesis of <scp>l</scp>-Phenylglycine and Its Substituted Derivatives
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry·2025· 2 cited
Recent Advances in the Biosynthetic Studies of Sordarin
ChemBioChem·2025
Arginine-<i>N,N</i>′-bisprenyltransferases: Switchable Catalysis in Consecutive Guanidine-<i>N</i>-prenylation
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2025· 5 cited
The Final Steps in Pseudoiodinine Biosynthesis Feature Ring-Contractive N–N Bond Formation
JACS Au·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Applications of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases in the biosynthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients
Green Synthesis and Catalysis·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Acetylation‐Deacetylation‐Driven Natural Product Biosynthesis
ChemistryEurope·2025Open Access
Editorial: Unusual enzyme reactions in natural products biosynthesis
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology·2025
Recently discovered heteromeric enzymes in natural product biosynthesis
Journal of Biological Chemistry·2025Open Access
A Ketone‐Accepting Pictet–Spenglerase for the Asymmetric Construction of 1,1‐Disubstituted Tetrahydro‐ß‐carboline Alkaloids
Angewandte Chemie·2025
A Ketone‐Accepting Pictet–Spenglerase for the Asymmetric Construction of 1,1‐Disubstituted Tetrahydro‐ß‐carboline Alkaloids
Angewandte Chemie International Edition·2025· 4 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Yudai Matsuda(17), Takayoshi Awakawa(16), Toshiyuki Wakimoto(11), Takahiro Mori(10), Hiroyuki Morita(7), Shotaro Hoshino(7), Masahiro Okada(6), Hiroshi Noguchi(6), Takaaki Mitsuhashi(5), Glenn D. Prestwich(4), Fumiaki Hayashi(4), Hiroshi Noguchi(4), Tetsuo Kushiro(3), Huiping Zhang(3), Satoshi Oguro(3), Lihan Zhang(3), Bin Qin(3), Takuya Ito(3), Yoshinori Asakawa(3), Yu Nakashima(3)