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SUBMITTER: McIntosh JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3657307 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McIntosh John A JA Lin Zhenjian Z Tianero Ma Diarey B MD Schmidt Eric W EW
ACS chemical biology 20130222 5
We report 12 cyanobactin cyclic peptides, the aestuaramides, from the cultivated cyanobacterium Lyngbya aestuarii. We show that aestuaramides are synthesized enzymatically as reverse O-prenylated tyrosine ethers that subsequently undergo a Claisen rearrangement to produce forward C-prenylated tyrosine. These results reveal that a nonenzymatic Claisen rearrangement dictates isoprene regiochemistry in a natural system. They also reveal one of the mechanisms that organisms use to generate structura ...[more]