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SUBMITTER: Kittendorf JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2843759 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 20081105 6
The methymycin/pikromycin (Pik) macrolide pathway represents a robust metabolic system for analysis of modular polyketide biosynthesis. The enzymes that comprise this biosynthetic pathway display unprecedented substrate flexibility, combining to produce six structurally diverse macrolide antibiotics in Streptomyces venezuelae. Thus, it is appealing to consider that the pikromycin biosynthetic enzymes could be leveraged for high-throughput production of novel macrolide antibiotics. Accordingly, e ...[more]