Piecing together the modular polyketide synthase puzzle
Adrian Keatinge-Clay¹, Jianting Zheng¹, Darren C. Gay¹, Amanda J. Hughes¹, Christopher D. Fage², Andrew D. Harper¹ and Constance B. Bailey¹, (1)Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, (2)Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Engineering acyl-CoA and carrier protein specificity of trans-acyltransferases for polyketide diversification
Gavin J. Williams¹, Zhixia Ye¹, Irina Koryakina¹, Shan Randall¹, David Muddiman¹, Ewa M Musiol² and Tilmann Weber², (1)Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, (2)Mikrobiologie/Biotechnologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Nucleoside and Peptide Antibiotics Inhibiting Bacterial Translocase I: Discovery and Chemoenzymatic Structural Modification
Steven G. Van Lanen, Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Protein farnesyltransferase: A useful enzyme for the preparation of site-specific protein conjugates
Mark D. Distefano, Department of Chemisty, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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Directed discovery of unknown known natural products using molecular barcodes
Nathan A. Magarvey, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, The Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

MbtH-like proteins in nonribosomal peptide biosynthesis
Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Unique enzyme reaction involved in the synthesis of a carbon-nitrogen bond
Michihiko Kobayashi, Institute of Applied Biochemistry, and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan