Substrate control in stereoselective lanthionine biosynthesis

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-64

  Tang, Weixin ^a   Jiménez Osés, Gonzalo ^b   Houk, K N ^b   Van Der Donk, Wilfred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; LANTHIONINE; SULFIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYCLIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; QUANTUM THEORY; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFIDES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84961289634     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2113     Document Type: Article

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