Researchers describe 'implausible' chemistry that produces herbicidal compound

Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 06:49 in Biology & Nature

A soil microbe that uses chemical warfare to fight off competitors employs an unusual chemical pathway in the manufacture of its arsenal, researchers report, making use of an enzyme that can do what no other enzyme is known to do: break a non-activated carbon-carbon bond in a single step...

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