Main observation and conclusion
The aminoglycoside antibiotic apramycin contains a unique bicyclic octose moiety,and biosynthesis of this moiety involves an oxi-doreductase AprQ.Unlike other known "Q" series proteins involved in aminoglycosides biosynthesis,AprQ does not work with an aminotransferase partner,and performs a four-electron oxidation that converts a CH20H moiety to a carboxylate group.In this study,we report mechanistic investigation of AprQ.