New analogues of the toxin mycolactone have been identified in a pathogenic Chinese strain of Mycobacterium ulcerans. They possess an extra methyl group at C2′ (shown in red) compared to mycolactone A as a result of the recruitment of a single catalytic domain of altered specificity in the mycolactone polyketide synthase.
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