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SUBMITTER: Zhang Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6585442 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20190326 14
The pericyclases are a growing superfamily of enzymes that catalyze pericyclic reactions. We report a pericyclase IccD catalyzing an inverse-electron demand Diels-Alder (IEDDA) reaction with a rate acceleration of 3 × 10<sup>5</sup>-fold in the biosynthesis of fungal natural product ilicicolin H. We demonstrate IccD is highly periselective toward the IEDDA cycloaddition over a competing normal electron demand Diels-Alder (NEDDA) reaction from an ambimodal transition state. A predicted flavoenzym ...[more]