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Biosynthetic Studies of Resorcylic Acid Lactones, Hypothemycin, Radicicol, and Dehydrocurvularin
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Fungal polyketides, a vast source for pharmaceutical industries, are biosynthesized by multifunctional iterative polyketide synthases (PKS). The biosynthesis employs complex programming rules, which are currently unresolved. To decode the programming rules, the biosynthesis of three polyketides,...
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Biosynthetic Study of CcsA and a Polyketide Synthase with Homology to Carnitine Acyltransferase
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Polyketides are a class of natural products with large structural and biochemical diversity. Polyketides are assembled by the polymerization of short-chain fatty acids by enzymes named polyketide synthases. Fungal iterative polyketide synthases are notable in that they contain multiple active...
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Investigation of the biosynthesis of lovastatin and cytochalasin E, two fungal polyketides assembled by iterative PKS-NRPS enzymes
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Cytochalasin E and lovastatin are two fungal polyketides that have seen extensive use as an angiogenesis inhibitor and as a cholesterol-lowering agent, respectively. These structurally divergent compounds are synthesized by polymerization of acetate units with concomitant functionalization by two...
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Investigations of Fungal Highly Reducing Polyketide Synthases: The Biosyntheses of Lovastatin and Hypothemycin
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Fungal highly reducing polyketide synthases (HR-PKSs) are large, multi-domain enzymes central to the biosynthesis of fungal polyketides. They assemble complex secondary metabolites, called polyketides, through the condensation of two-carbon acetate units and tailoring of the functional groups at...