Alternapyrone is a highly methylated polyene α-pyrone biosynthesised by a highly reducing polyketide synthase. Mutations of the catalytic dyad residues, H1578A/Q and E1604A, of the -methyltransferase domain resulted in either significantly reduced or no production of alternapyrone, indicating the importance of -methylation for alternapyrone biosynthesis.
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