Oxidative cyclizations in orthosomycin biosynthesis expand the known chemistry of an oxygenase superfamily.
McCulloch, K.M., McCranie, E.K., Smith, J.A., Sarwar, M., Mathieu, J.L., Gitschlag, B.L., Du, Y., Bachmann, B.O., Iverson, T.M.(2015) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112: 11547-11552
- PubMed: 26240321 
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500964112
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4XAA, 4XAB, 4XAC, 4XBZ, 4XC9, 4XCA, 4XCB, 4ZPI - PubMed Abstract: 
Orthosomycins are oligosaccharide antibiotics that include avilamycin, everninomicin, and hygromycin B and are hallmarked by a rigidifying interglycosidic spirocyclic ortho-δ-lactone (orthoester) linkage between at least one pair of carbohydrates. A subset of orthosomycins additionally contain a carbohydrate capped by a methylenedioxy bridge ...