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Reactive Heterocycles For Examining Polyketide Biosynthesis, Gitanjeli Prasad
Reactive Heterocycles For Examining Polyketide Biosynthesis, Gitanjeli Prasad
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Polyketides are a class of natural products that exhibit remarkable structural and functionally diversity and are highly sought after due to their medicinally important activities. For many decades now, polyketide synthases (PKSs), the mega-enzymes responsible for biosynthesis of polyketides have been the focus of extensive investigation to make new polyketides by polyketide engineering strategies. While there are many established methods to investigate polyketide enzymes and biosynthesis mechanisms, they have substantial shortcomings that have limited the extent of success with polyketide engineering efforts.
This thesis focuses on developing simple, flexible yet powerful tools for examining polyketide biosynthesis by overcoming some deficiencies …