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Engineered biosynthesis of novel spinosyns bearing altered deoxyhexose substituents
Sabine Gaisser1, Christine J Martin, Barrie Wilkinson
1Biotica Technology Ltd, 181A Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, UK CB3 0DJ.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 18, 2002
Abstract:
Novel spinosyns have been prepared by biotransformation, using a genetically engineered strain of Saccharopolyspora erythraea, in which the beta-D-forosamine moiety in glycosidic linkage to the hydroxy group at C17 is replaced by alpha-L-mycarose.