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Figure 1.
Figure 1: Fosfomycin biosynthesis. The fosfomycin biosynthetic pathway requires phosphoenolpyruvate mutase (Fom1), phosphonopyruvate decarboxylase (Fom2), phosphonoacetaldehyde methyltransferase (Fom3) and HppE (Fom4). 1, phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP); 2, phosphonopyruvate (PnPy); 3, phosphonoacetaldehyde (PnAA); 4, (S)-2-hydroxypropylphosphonic acid (S-HPP); 5, fosfomycin. C1 and C2 positions are shown in blue.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature (2005, 437, 838-844) copyright 2005.