Figure 5.
Extender unit generation for polyketide engineering. (a) Production of unnatural malonyl-CoA extender units via crotonyl-CoA reductase and subsequent installation into salinosporamide and FK506. (b) Installation of an alkyne into antimycin via a novel pathway (c) Generation and installation of aryl-CoA analogues into splenocin. (d) MatB-generated library of diverse malonyl-CoA extender units.