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SUBMITTER: Diethelm S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4226426 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diethelm Stefan S Teufel Robin R Kaysser Leonard L Moore Bradley S BS
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20140821 41
The vanadium-dependent chloroperoxidase Mcl24 was discovered to mediate a complex series of unprecedented transformations in the biosynthesis of the merochlorin meroterpenoid antibiotics. In particular, a site-selective naphthol chlorination is followed by an oxidative dearomatization/terpene cyclization sequence to build up the stereochemically complex carbon framework of the merochlorins in one step. Inspired by the enzyme reactivity, a chemical chlorination protocol paralleling the biocatalyt ...[more]