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Antimicrobial Peptides Produced by Selective Pressure Incorporation of Non-canonical Amino Acids
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New pacidamycins biosynthetically: probing N- and C-terminal substrate specificity
Amany E Ragab1, Sabine Grüschow, Emma J Rackham
1The School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK NR4 7TJ.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|June 2, 2010
Abstract:
Feeding phenylalanine analogues to Streptomyces coeruleorubidus reveals the remarkable steric and electronic flexibility of this biosynthetic pathway and leads to the generation of a series of new halopacidamycins.
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