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A common origin for guanidinobutanoate starter units in antifungal natural products
Hong, Hui,Fill, Taicia,Leadlay, Peter F.
, p. 13096 - 13099 (2013)
Keeping it basic: Arginine provides the exotic 4-guanidinobutanoate starter unit for two different types of zwitterionic polyketide (an example for one type is shown in the picture) produced by the same Streptomyces bacterium. The three-step precursor pathway is initiated by a remarkable decarboxylating monooxygenase with high specificity for arginine. Copyright
