Mikko Metsä-Ketelä
 
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 Areas of expertise 
Natural products; Streptomyces; biosynthesis
Natural products; Streptomyces; biosynthesis
 Research 
http://abelab.utu.fi
 Teaching 
Molecular Biology
Structural Biology
 Publications  
  
            - MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration  (2025)  - Nucleic Acids Research
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Three-Enzyme Cascade Catalyzes Conversion of Auramycinone to Resomycin in Chartreusin Biosynthesis  (2025)  - ACS Chemical Biology
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- ActVI-ORFA directs metabolic flux towards actinorhodin by preventing intermediate degradation  (2024)  - PLoS ONE
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Divergence of Classical and C-Ring-Cleaved Angucyclines : Elucidation of Early Tailoring Steps in Lugdunomycin and Thioangucycline Biosynthesis  (2024)  - ACS Chemical Biology
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Diverse Combinatorial Biosynthesis Strategies for C-H Functionalization of Anthracyclinones  (2024)  - ACS Synthetic Biology
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Mechanism of Two-Component Mono-Oxygenases Involved in Anthracycline 1-Hydroxylation  (2024)  - ACS Catalysis
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Metabolic engineering of Streptomyces peucetius for biosynthesis of N,N-dimethylated anthracyclines  (2024)  - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Probing the nucleobase selectivity of RNA polymerases with dual-coding substrates  (2024)  - Journal of Biological Chemistry
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Bakteerien avulla antibiootteja mikrobi- ja syöpälääkkeiksi  (2023)  - Duodecim
 
 (A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
- Co-factor independent oxidases ncnN and actVA-3 are involved in the dimerization of benzoisochromanequinone antibiotics in naphthocyclinone and actinorhodin biosynthesis  (2023)  - FEMS Microbiology Letters
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Engineering BioBricks for Deoxysugar Biosynthesis and Generation of New Tetracenomycins  (2023)  - ACS Omega
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Evolution-inspired engineering of anthracycline methyltransferases  (2023)  - PNAS nexus
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Pseudouridine-Modifying Enzymes SapB and SapH Control Entry into the Pseudouridimycin Biosynthetic Pathway  (2023)  - ACS Chemical Biology
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Unravelling key enzymatic steps in C-ring cleavage during angucycline biosynthesis  (2023)  - Communications chemistry
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- A BioBricks Metabolic Engineering Platform for the Biosynthesis of Anthracyclinones in Streptomyces coelicolor  (2022)  - ACS Synthetic Biology
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Anthracyclines: biosynthesis, engineering and clinical applications  (2022)  - Natural Product Reports
 
 (A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
- Fluorogenic RNA aptamers to probe transcription initiation and co-transcriptional RNA folding by multi-subunit RNA polymerases  (2022)  Methods in Enzymology Huang Yong-Heng, Trapp Vilma, Puro Oskari, Mäkinen Janne J., Metsä-Ketelä Mikko, Wahl Markus C., Belogurov Georgiy A.
 (A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)
- Single cell mutant selection for metabolic engineering of actinomycetes  (2022)  - Metabolic Engineering
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- The role of the maleimide ring system on the structure-activity relationship of showdomycin  (2022)  - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Biosynthesis of Diverse Type II Polyketide Core Structures in Streptomyces coelicolor M1152  (2021)  - ACS Synthetic Biology
 
 (A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)




