β-Lactone formation during product release from a nonribosomal peptide synthetase

Nature Chemical Biology(2017)

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Abstract
In vitro reconstitution of five enzymes elucidates the biosynthetic pathway of obafluorin (Obi) and reveals that ObiF uses an unusual thioesterase domain to cyclize the product to a strained β-lactone during release from the NRPS assembly line.
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Biosynthesis,Natural products,Enzymes,Enzyme mechanisms
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