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SUBMITTER: Bogart JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6637763 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20190122 5
Thiopeptide pyridine synthases catalyze a multistep reaction involving a unique and nonspontaneous intramolecular aza-[4 + 2] cycloaddition between two dehydroalanines to forge a trisubstituted pyridine core. We discovered that the in vitro activity of pyridine synthases from the thiocillin and thiomuracin pathways are significantly enhanced by general base catalysis and that this broadly expands the enzymes substrate tolerance. Remarkably, TbtD is competent to perform an intermolecular cyclizat ...[more]