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SUBMITTER: Luhavaya H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4988243 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Luhavaya Hanna H Dias Marcio V B MV Williams Simon R SR Hong Hui H de Oliveira Luciana G LG Leadlay Peter F PF
Angewandte Chemie (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20150917 46
Tetrahydropyran rings are a common feature of complex polyketide natural products, but much remains to be learned about the enzymology of their formation. The enzyme SalBIII from the salinomycin biosynthetic pathway resembles other polyether epoxide hydrolases/cyclases of the MonB family, but SalBIII plays no role in the conventional cascade of ring opening/closing. Mutation in the <i>salBIII</i> gene gave a metabolite in which ring A is not formed. Using this metabolite in vitro as a substrate ...[more]