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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2018 Apr 6;57(24):3309–3325. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00239

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Radical type of sulfur insertion mechanism (BioB catalysis of biotin biosynthesis). (A) Reductive cleavage of SAM. (B) Proposed BioB catalytic mechanism in which thioether bond formation goes through two substrate-based radical intermediates, 19a and 19d.