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Calicheamicin γ1 is a polyketide synthase-derived enediyne that has been found in M. echinospora.1 It is composed of carbohydrate and aromatic moieties, which bind to the minor groove in DNA, and a warhead moiety that aromatizes and oxidatively induces double-stranded DNA scission in cell-free assays.2,3
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1. A discrete intermediate for the biosynthesis of both the enediyne core and the anthraquinone moiety of enediyne natural products. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 120(9), e2220468120 (2023).
2. The calicheamicin gene cluster and its iterative type I enediyne PKS. Science 297(5584), 1173-1176 (2002).
3. Calicheamicin γ1I: An antitumor antibiotic that cleaves double-