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. 2019 Aug 9;10:3611. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11538-6

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Proposed biosynthesis of the formicapyridine backbone. Derailment of fasamycin biosynthesis due to premature hydrolysis of the PKS acylcarrier protein leads to the β-ketoacid intermediate 28 which is facile to decarboxylation yielding methylketone 29. Transamination of 29 leads of amine intermediates which can undergo spontaneous cyclization and aromatization to yield formicapyridines