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SUBMITTER: Olucha J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3188341 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Olucha Jose J Lamb Audrey L AL
Bioorganic chemistry 20110805 5-6
The N-hydroxylating flavoprotein monooxygenases are siderophore biosynthetic enzymes that catalyze the hydroxylation of the sidechain amino-group of ornithine or lysine or the primary amino-group of putrescine. This hydroxylated product is subsequently formylated or acylated and incorporated into the siderophore. Importantly, the modified amino-group is a hydroxamate and serves as an iron chelating moiety in the siderophore. This review describes recent work to characterize the ornithine hydroxy ...[more]