Expansion of ribosomally produced natural products: a nitrile hydratase- and Nif11-related precursor family

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A new family of natural products has been described in which cysteine, serine and threonine from ribosomally-produced peptides are converted to thiazoles, oxazoles and methyloxazoles, respectively. These metabolites and their biosynt...

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Main Authors: Mitchell Douglas A, Basu Malay, Haft Daniel H
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-05-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/70

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