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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 2.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2016 Jul 21;55(30):4131–4134. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00598

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

A proposed mechanism of thioether crosslink formation in sactipeptides. The dAdo• abstracts the Cα hydrogen atom from the acceptor residue to initiate catalysis to generate the captodatively stabilized radical intermediate.