The enzyme catalyses the activation of salicylate to (salicyl)adenylate, followed by the transfer of the activated compound to the free thiol of a phosphopantetheine arm of an aryl-carrier protein, which is often a domain of a larger non-ribosimal peptide synthase. The PmsE enzyme is involved in pseudomonine biosynthesis and transfers the activated salicylate first to itself, and then to a PmsG protein. The PchD enzyme is involved in pyochelin biosynthesis and transfers the activated salicylate directly to the PchE protein.
Assembly of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa nonribosomal peptide siderophore pyochelin: In vitro reconstitution of aryl-4, 2-bisthiazoline synthetase activity from PchD, PchE, and PchF.
