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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 28.
Published in final edited form as: Chembiochem. 2009 Jan 5;10(1):34–53. doi: 10.1002/cbic.200800438

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Formation of lanthionine. Dehydration of a serine residue in the peptide backbone affords Dha. A cysteine thiolate captures the eneamino acid side chain of Dha to form the thioether.