New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering

M Montalbán-López, TA Scott, S Ramesh… - Natural product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to June 2020 Ribosomally-synthesized and post-translationally modified
peptides (RiPPs) are a large group of natural products. A community-driven review in 2013 …

Biosynthesis and chemical applications of thioamides

N Mahanta, DM Szantai-Kis, EJ Petersson… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Thioamidation as a posttranslational modification is exceptionally rare, with only a few
reported natural products and exactly one known protein example (methyl-coenzyme M …

Bioinformatic atlas of radical SAM enzyme-modified RiPP natural products reveals an isoleucine–tryptophan crosslink

KA Clark, MR Seyedsayamdost - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a growing
family of natural products with diverse activities and structures. RiPP classes are defined by …

Macrocyclization and backbone modification in RiPP biosynthesis

H Lee, WA Van Der Donk - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The past decade has seen impressive advances in understanding the biosynthesis of
ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs). One of the most …

Uncovering the unexplored diversity of thioamidated ribosomal peptides in Actinobacteria using the RiPPER genome mining tool

J Santos-Aberturas, G Chandra… - Nucleic Acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The rational discovery of new specialized metabolites by genome mining represents a very
promising strategy in the quest for new bioactive molecules. Ribosomally synthesized and …

Bioinformatic expansion and discovery of thiopeptide antibiotics

CJ Schwalen, GA Hudson, B Kille… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thiopeptides are members of the ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified
peptide family of natural products. Most characterized thiopeptides display nanomolar …

Methyl (alkyl)-coenzyme M reductases: nickel F-430-containing enzymes involved in anaerobic methane formation and in anaerobic oxidation of methane or of short …

RK Thauer - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) catalyzes the methane-forming step in methanogenic
archaea. The active enzyme harbors the nickel (I) hydrocorphin coenzyme F-430 as a …

Core-dependent post-translational modifications guide the biosynthesis of a new class of hypermodified peptides

ZF Pei, L Zhu, SK Nair - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
The ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPPs) class of
natural products has undergone significant expansion due to the rapid growth in genome …

Bioinformatics-guided expansion and discovery of graspetides

S Ramesh, X Guo, AJ DiCaprio, AM De Lio… - ACS chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Graspetides are a class of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide
natural products featuring ATP-grasp ligase-dependent formation of macrolactones …

Ynamide‐Mediated Thiopeptide Synthesis

J Yang, C Wang, S Xu, J Zhao - … Chemie International Edition, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Exploration of the full potential of thioamide substitution as a tool in the chemical biology of
peptides and proteins has been hampered by insufficient synthetic strategies for the site …