Proposed biochemical pathway leading to several high carbon nucleosides inhibiting bacterial translocase I. Highlighted in bold is the enzyme characterized in this study; enzymes with likely identical function as LipL include ORF7 from the A-500359 gene cluster, CapA from the A-503083 gene cluster, LpmM from the liposidomycin gene cluster, Cprz15 from the caprazamycin gene cluster, and PacF/PacX from the pacidamycin gene cluster. AMT, aminotransferase; GTase, glycosyltransferase.