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In vitro and in vivo production of new aminocoumarins by a combined biochemical, genetic, and synthetic approach.
Chemistry & biology - 1 Feb 2004
Galm Ute, Dessoy Marco Aurélio, Schmidt Jürgen, Wessjohann Ludger A, Heide Lutz
Abstract excerpt
The aminocoumarin antibiotics clorobiocin, novobiocin, and coumermycin A(1) are inhibitors of bacterial gyrase. Their chemical structures contain amide bonds, formed between an aminocoumarin ring and an aromatic acyl component, which is 3-dimethylallyl-4-hydroxybenzoate in the case of novobiocin and clorobiocin. These amide bonds are formed under catalysis of the gene products of cloL, novL, and couL,...
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