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Freedom and constraint in engineered noncolinear polyketide assembly lines.
Chemistry & biology - 19 Feb 2015
Sugimoto Yuki, Ishida Keishi, Traitcheva Nelly, Busch Benjamin, Dahse Hans-Martin, Hertweck Christian
Abstract excerpt
Many pharmacologically important natural products are assembled by modular type I polyketide synthases (PKS), which typically act in a unidirectional fashion. The synthases producing the unusual nitro-substituted polyketides neoaureothin (nor, also called spectinabilin) and aureothin (aur) are exceptional, as they employ individual modules iteratively. Here, we investigate the plasticity of the nor PKS and the...
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