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SUBMITTER: Hudson GA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4819586 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hudson Graham A GA Zhang Zhengan Z Tietz Jonathan I JI Mitchell Douglas A DA van der Donk Wilfred A WA
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20151221 51
Thiopeptides are potent antibiotics that inhibit protein synthesis. They are made by a remarkable post-translational modification process that transforms a linear peptide into a polycyclic structure. We present here the in vitro biosynthesis of the core scaffold of thiomuracin catalyzed by six proteins. We show that cyclodehydration precedes dehydration, and that dehydration is catalyzed by two proteins in a tRNA(Glu)-dependent manner. The enzyme that generates the pyridine core from two dehydro ...[more]