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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1401:3–29. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3375-4_1

Figure 9.

Figure 9

Mechanism-based inhibitors used to crystallize NRPS multi-domain structures. A. The α-chloroacetyl-CoA derivative was designed to react with the catalytic serine of thioesterase domain. The catalytic reaction, the inhibitor rationale, and the observed structure are shown. B. The vinylsulfonamide inhibitor is shown, along with the two-step reaction catalyzed by the adenylation domain. The covalent inhibitor complex has been observed in two crystal structures.