Illuminating Substrate Preferences of Promiscuous F420H2-Dependent Dehydroamino Acid Reductases with 4-Track mRNA Display

AA Vinogradov, G Bashiri, H Suga - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Stereoselective reduction of dehydroamino acids is a common biosynthetic strategy to
introduce d-amino acids into peptidic natural products. The reduction, often observed during …

Assessing substrate scope of the cyclodehydratase LynD by mRNA display-enabled machine learning models

EG Steude, H Dieckhaus, JM Pelton, B Kuhlman… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Many of the biosynthetic pathways for ribosomal synthesized and post-translationally
modified peptide (RiPP) natural products make use of multi-domain enzymes with separate …

Expanding Cell Free Biosynthesis for the Discovery of Natural Product-Inspired Peptides

JM Pelton - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Peptide-based drugs have historically been valuable assets in the clinic for combating
disease. Traditionally, natural products have provided a rich source of carefully optimized …