Journal
NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 12, Pages 879-889Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2465
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- US National Institutes of Health [ES001670]
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation [DRG-2002-09]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Fungal aromatic polyketides constitute a large family of bioactive natural products and are synthesized by the non-reducing group of iterative polyketide synthases (PKSs). Their diverse structures arise from selective enzymatic modifications of reactive, enzyme-bound poly-beta-keto intermediates. How iterative PKSs control starter unit selection, polyketide chain initiation and elongation, intermediate folding and cyclization, selective redox or modification reactions during assembly, and product release are central mechanistic questions underlying iterative catalysis. This Review highlights recent insights into these questions, with a particular focus on the biosynthetic programming of fungal aromatic polyketides, and draws comparisons with the allied biosynthetic processes in bacteria.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available