DOI: 10.1039/d6cc05733k ISSN: 1359-7345

Engineering collismycin biosynthesis enables potent acetylcholinesterase inhibitors

Jiyuan Yang, Yanqing Li, Jingjing Li, Yanjun Song, Changli Sun, Hongxu Liu, Fanyu Dong, Runping Fang, Jianhua Ju, Weilong Liu

By integrating pathway engineering with chemical synthesis, we rapidly generated a library of collismycins and identified a nanomolar acetylcholinesterase inhibitor that outperforms the clinical drug galantamine.

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