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Penicillin Biosynthesis: Direct Biosynthetic Formation of Penicillin V and Penicillin G
Baldwin, Jack E.,Abraham, Edward P.,Burge, Geoffrey L.,Ting, Hong-Hoi
, p. 1808 - 1809 (1985)
The enzyme isopenicillin N synthetase is able to convert directly the dipeptides, phenoxyacetylcysteinylvaline and phenylacetylcysteinylvaline into penicillin V and G respectively; these are however very slow compared with substrates of the α-aminoadipoyl or adipoylcysteinylvaline type.
