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SUBMITTER: Blankenfeldt W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4268259 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blankenfeldt Wulf W Parsons James F JF
Current opinion in structural biology 20140915
The phenazines are a class of over 150 nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds of bacterial and archeal origin. Their redox properties not only explain their activity as broad-specificity antibiotics and virulence factors but also enable them to function as respiratory pigments, thus extending their importance to the primary metabolism of phenazine-producing species. Despite their discovery in the mid-19th century, the molecular mechanisms behind their biosynthesis have only been unraveled in the ...[more]