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Biosynthetic pathways harbor diverse enzyme functions, and identifying those that catalyze unusual or synthetically challenging transformations offers new routes for biocatalytic development.
The growing intersection between chemical tools and principles and developmental biology is providing new insights into the molecular-level details of developmental processes.