4(3H)-quinazolinone is the core scaffold in more than 200 natural alkaloids and numerous drugs. Here, the authors show an alternative assembly machinery for 4(3H)-quinazolinone mainly includes a two-module NRPS catalysing tripeptide formation, unusual N-3 original sources and an α-KGD catalysing the C-N bond oxidative cleavage of a tripeptide to form a dipeptide.
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