The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide

F Baquero, K Beis, DJ Craik, Y Li, AJ Link… - Natural Product …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1992 up to 2023 Since their discovery, lasso peptides went from peculiarities to
be recognized as a major family of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified …

Factors governing the thermal stability of lasso peptides

JD Hegemann - ChemBioChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lasso peptides belong to the natural product superfamily of ribosomally synthesized and
post‐translationally modified peptides (RiPPs). They are defined by an N‐terminal …

Trapped ion mobility spectrometry, ultraviolet photodissociation, and time-of-flight mass spectrometry for gas-phase peptide isobars/isomers/conformers discrimination

SA Miller, K Jeanne Dit Fouque… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Trapped ion mobility spectrometry (TIMS) when coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) offers
great advantages for the separation of isobaric, isomeric, and/or conformeric species. In the …

Lasso peptides: chemical approaches and structural elucidation

H Martin-Gómez, J Tulla-Puche - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery and development of novel constrained peptides that combine the advantages
of therapeutic proteins with those of small molecules has partially prompted the re …

Fate and biological activity of the antimicrobial lasso peptide microcin J25 under gastrointestinal tract conditions

S Naimi, S Zirah, R Hammami, B Fernandez… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The bacteriocin microcin J25 (MccJ25) inhibits the growth of Gram-negative pathogens
including Salmonella and Shigella species, and Escherichia coli. This 21-amino acid …

Cloacaenodin, an Antimicrobial Lasso Peptide with Activity against Enterobacter

DV Carson, M Patiño, HE Elashal… - ACS infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Using genome mining and heterologous expression, we report the discovery and production
of a new antimicrobial lasso peptide from species related to the Enterobacter cloacae …

Spatially resolved neuropeptide characterization from neuropathological formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections by a combination of imaging MALDI FT-ICR …

YL Cintron-Diaz, ME Gomez-Hernandez… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
To make the vast collections of well-documented human clinical samples archived in
biobanks accessible for mass spectrometry imaging (MSI), recent developments have …

Quantum-mechanical structure optimization of protein crystals and analysis of interactions in periodic systems

T Nakamura, T Yokaichiya… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A fast quantum-mechanical approach, density-functional tight-binding combined with the
fragment molecular orbital method and periodic boundary conditions, is used to optimize …

Ulleungdin, a lasso peptide with cancer cell migration inhibitory activity discovered by the genome mining approach

S Son, M Jang, B Lee, YS Hong, SK Ko… - Journal of Natural …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The advances of genomic sequence analyses and genome mining tools have enabled the
exploration of untapped microbial natural products. Through genome mining studies to …

An orthogonal system for heterologous expression of actinobacterial lasso peptides in Streptomyces hosts

J Mevaere, C Goulard, O Schneider, ON Sekurova… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Lasso peptides are ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides
produced by bacteria. They are characterized by an unusual lariat-knot structure. Targeted …