Document Type
Article
Department
Chemistry (HMC)
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
Nature fashions a very large number of diverse products (molecular weights ranging from ca. 200 to 2000 daltons) from simple monomeric metabolites used in primary metabolism. These include polyketide scaffolds generated from the simple C₃ malonyl CoA and C₄ methylmalonyl CoA monomers and nonribosomal peptides made from both the 20 proteinogenic amino acids and dozens of nonpoteinogenic amino acids.¹ A large family of terpenoid skeletons are built from the Δ²- and Δ³-alkene isomers of the biological isoprene monomer, isoprenyl-pyrophosphate.²
Rights Information
© 2005 Data Trace Publishing Co.
Recommended Citation
“Nature's assembly line logic for natural products,” Walsh, C.T.; Kruger, R.G.; Vosburg, D.A. Chemtracts 2005, 18, 307-320.
