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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2009 Jun 2;48(21):4476–4487. doi: 10.1021/bi8023509

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Biosynthetic pathway to mithramycin. The reaction catalyzed by BVMO MtmOIV yields premithramycin B-lactone, validating the BV mechanism, and is further converted to mithramycin DK (presumably spontaneously). The ketoreductase MtmW catalyzes the final step of mithramycin biosynthesis