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Ribosomal route to small-molecule diversity.
Journal of the American Chemical Society - 11 Jan 2012
Tianero Ma Diarey B, Donia Mohamed S, Young Travis S, Schultz Peter G, Schmidt Eric W
Abstract excerpt
The cyanobactin ribosomal peptide (RP) natural product pathway was manipulated to incorporate multiple tandem mutations and non-proteinogenic amino acids, using eight heterologous components simultaneously expressed in Escherichia coli . These studies reveal the potential of RPs for the rational synthesis of complex, new small molecules over multiple-step biosynthetic pathways using simple genetic engineering.
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