As the identification of previously undetected microbial biosynthetic pathways burgeons, there arises the question of how much new chemistry is yet to be found. This, in turn, devolves to: what kinds of biosynthetic enzymatic transformations are yet to be characterized?
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Walsh, C. A chemocentric view of the natural product inventory. Nat Chem Biol 11, 620–624 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1894
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