An extension of synthetic biology to a medicinal plant involves the transfer of chlorination equipment from bacteria. This exercise adds implements to the enzymatic toolbox for generating natural products. See Letter p.461
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Noel, J. Synthetic metabolism goes green. Nature 468, 380–381 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468380a
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