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A radical finding

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A new family of radical halogenases has been discovered that regio- and stereoselectively chlorinates the unactivated carbon center of indolemonoterpenoid substrates without the prerequisite for the substrate to be bound to a protein carrier.

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Figure 1: Pfam classification of and representative reactions catalyzed by NHI halogenases.

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  1. Rebecca J.M. Goss and Sabine Grüschow are at the School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, UK.,

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