Biochemistry

Establishing a toolkit for precursor-directed polyketide biosynthesis: exploring substrate promiscuities of acid-CoA ligases

MK Go, JY Chow, VWN Cheung, YP Lim, WS Yew

Index: Go, Maybelle Kho; Chow, Jeng Yeong; Cheung, Vivian Wing Ngar; Lim, Yan Ping; Yew, Wen Shan Biochemistry, 2012 , vol. 51, # 22 p. 4568 - 4579

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Abstract

Polyketides are chemically diverse and medicinally important biochemicals that are biosynthesized from acyl-CoA precursors by polyketide synthases. One of the limitations to combinatorial biosynthesis of polyketides has been the lack of a toolkit that describes the means of delivering novel acyl-CoA precursors necessary for polyketide biosynthesis. Using five acid-CoA ligases obtained from various plants and microorganisms, we ...