Sandström, Corine
- Department of Molecular Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Methylation is among the most widespread chemical modifications encountered in biomolecules and has a pivotal role in many major biological processes. In the biosynthetic pathway of the antibiotic thiostrepton A, we identified what is to our knowledge the first tryptophan methyltransferase. We show that it uses unprecedented chemistry to methylate inactivated sp(2)-hybridized carbon atoms, despite being predicted to be a radical SAM enzyme.
Published in
Nature Chemical Biology
2012, volume: 8, number: 12, pages: 957-959
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Organic Chemistry
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/NCHEMBIO.1091
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/41971