An Enzymatic Cyclopentyl[b]indole Formation Involved in Scytonemin Biosynthesis
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An enzymatic cyclopentyl[b]indole formation involved in scytonemin biosynthesis.
Previous studies of the biosynthetic enzymes involved in the assembly of scytonemin (1), a cyanobacterial sunscreen, have identified beta-ketoacid 2 as an important intermediate that is produced by ThDP-dependent enzyme ScyA. We now report that ScyC, previously annotated as a hypothetical protein, catalyzes cyclization and decarboxylation of 2 to generate ketone 5. Assembly of the cyclopentyl[b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Chemical Society
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0002-7863,1520-5126
DOI: 10.1021/ja906752u