Mechanism of action of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides

C Ongpipattanakul, EK Desormeaux… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a natural
product class that has undergone significant expansion due to the rapid growth in genome …

Peptidomics

R Hellinger, A Sigurdsson, W Wu… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Peptides are biopolymers, typically consisting of 2–50 amino acids. They are biologically
produced by the cellular ribosomal machinery or by non-ribosomal enzymes and …

A scalable platform to discover antimicrobials of ribosomal origin

RS Ayikpoe, C Shi, AJ Battiste, SM Eslami… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a promising
source of new antimicrobials in the face of rising antibiotic resistance. Here, we report a …

Exploring the diverse landscape of biaryl-containing peptides generated by cytochrome P450 macrocyclases

H Nam, JS An, J Lee, Y Yun, H Lee… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s) catalyze diverse oxidative cross-coupling reactions
between aromatic substrates in the natural product biosynthesis. Specifically, P450s install …

Bacterial Cytochrome P450 Catalyzed Post‐translational Macrocyclization of Ribosomal Peptides

BB He, J Liu, Z Cheng, R Liu, Z Zhong… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ribosomally synthesized and post‐translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a
fascinating group of natural products that exhibit diverse structural features and bioactivities …

Machine learning-enabled genome mining and bioactivity prediction of natural products

Y Yuan, C Shi, H Zhao - ACS synthetic biology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Natural products (NPs) produced by microorganisms and plants are a major source of drugs,
herbicides, and fungicides. Thanks to recent advances in DNA sequencing, bioinformatics …

Biosynthesis and characterization of fuscimiditide, an aspartimidylated graspetide

HE Elashal, JD Koos, WL Cheung-Lee, B Choi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microviridins and other ω-ester-linked peptides, collectively known as graspetides, are
characterized by side-chain–side-chain linkages installed by ATP-grasp enzymes. Here we …

Genome Mining and Discovery of Imiditides, a Family of RiPPs with a Class-Defining Aspartimide Modification

L Cao, T Do, A Zhu, J Duan, N Alam… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a large and
diverse class of natural products of ribosomal origin. In the past decade, various …

Gene-guided discovery and ribosomal biosynthesis of moroidin peptides

RD Kersten, LS Mydy, TR Fallon… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Moroidin is a bicyclic plant octapeptide with tryptophan side-chain cross-links, originally
isolated as a pain-causing agent from the Australian stinging tree Dendrocnide moroides …

Non-modular fatty acid synthases yield distinct N-terminal acylation in ribosomal peptides

H Ren, C Huang, Y Pan, SR Dommaraju, H Cui, M Li… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Recent efforts in genome mining of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally
modified peptides (RiPPs) have expanded the diversity of post-translational modification …