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Tandem enzymatic oxygenations in biosynthesis of epoxyquinone pharmacophore of manumycin-type metabolites
Rui, Zhe,Sandy, Moriah,Jung, Brian,Zhang, Wenjun
, p. 879 - 887 (2013/08/23)
Many natural products contain epoxyquinone pharmacophore with unknown biosynthetic mechanisms. Recent genetic analysis of the asukamycin biosynthetic gene cluster proposed enzyme candidates related to epoxyquinone formation for manumycin-type metabolites.
Biochemical and genetic insights into asukamycin biosynthesis
Rui, Zhe,Petrickova, Katerina,Skanta, Frantisek,Pospisil, Stanislav,Yang, Yanling,Chen, Chung-Yung,Tsai, Shih-Feng,Floss, Heinz G.,Petricek, Miroslav,Yu, Tin-Wein
body text, p. 24915 - 24924 (2011/06/21)
Asukamycin, a member of the manumycin family metabolites, is an antimicrobial and potential antitumor agent isolated from Streptomyces nodosus subsp. asukaensis. The entire asukamycin biosynthetic gene cluster was cloned, assembled, and expressed heterolo