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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 26.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2021 Jun 24;60(31):17148–17154. doi: 10.1002/anie.202105667

Figure 7.

Figure 7.

Proposed mechanism of glycosidic bond formation catalyzed by SdmA. Based on sequence alignment with YeiN[17], Lys170 in SdmA is proposed to form a Schiff base with the ring-opened ribose 5-phosphate precursor (35) prior to the nucleophilic addition of 13.