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SUBMITTER: Fage CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4366278 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fage Christopher D CD Isiorho Eta A EA Liu Yungnan Y Wagner Drew T DT Liu Hung-wen HW Keatinge-Clay Adrian T AT
Nature chemical biology 20150302 4
In the biosynthetic pathway of the spinosyn insecticides, the tailoring enzyme SpnF performs a [4 + 2] cycloaddition on a 22-membered macrolactone to forge an embedded cyclohexene ring. To learn more about this reaction, which could potentially proceed through a Diels-Alder mechanism, we determined the 1.50-Å-resolution crystal structure of SpnF bound to S-adenosylhomocysteine. This sets the stage for advanced experimental and computational studies to determine the precise mechanism of SpnF-medi ...[more]