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SUBMITTER: Zhang Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5748327 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Zhengan Z Mahanta Nilkamal N Hudson Graham A GA Mitchell Douglas A DA van der Donk Wilfred A WA
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20171215 51
The past decade has seen the discovery of four different classes of radical S-adenosylmethionine (rSAM) methyltransferases that methylate unactivated carbon centers. Whereas the mechanism of class A is well understood, the molecular details of methylation by classes B-D are not. In this study, we present detailed mechanistic investigations of the class C rSAM methyltransferase TbtI involved in the biosynthesis of the potent thiopeptide antibiotic thiomuracin. TbtI C-methylates a Cys-derived thia ...[more]