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 …

Mining genomes to illuminate the specialized chemistry of life

MH Medema, T de Rond, BS Moore - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
All organisms produce specialized organic molecules, ranging from small volatile chemicals
to large gene-encoded peptides, that have evolved to provide them with diverse cellular and …

[HTML][HTML] Biosynthetic potential of the global ocean microbiome

L Paoli, HJ Ruscheweyh, CC Forneris, F Hubrich… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Natural microbial communities are phylogenetically and metabolically diverse. In addition to
underexplored organismal groups, this diversity encompasses a rich discovery potential for …

Genome mining methods to discover bioactive natural products

KD Bauman, KS Butler, BS Moore… - Natural Product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2016 to 2021 With genetic information available for hundreds of thousands of
organisms in publicly accessible databases, scientists have an unprecedented opportunity …

A roadmap for metagenomic enzyme discovery

SL Robinson, J Piel, S Sunagawa - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 Metagenomics has yielded massive amounts of sequencing data
offering a glimpse into the biosynthetic potential of the uncultivated microbial majority. While …

Concepts and methods to access novel antibiotics from actinomycetes

JJ Hug, CD Bader, M Remškar, K Cirnski, R Müller - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Actinomycetes have been proven to be an excellent source of secondary metabolites for
more than half a century. Exhibiting various bioactivities, they provide valuable approved …

Deep Learning-Driven Library Design for the De Novo Discovery of Bioactive Thiopeptides

JS Chang, AA Vinogradov, Y Zhang, Y Goto… - ACS Central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Broad substrate tolerance of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified
peptide (RiPP) biosynthetic enzymes has allowed numerous strategies for RiPP …

Ribosomally derived lipopeptides containing distinct fatty acyl moieties

F Hubrich, NM Bösch, C Chepkirui… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Lipopeptides represent a large group of microbial natural products that include important
antibacterial and antifungal drugs and some of the most-powerful known biosurfactants. The …

[PDF][PDF] Mechanisms of action of ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs)

L Cao, T Do, AJ Link - Journal of Industrial Microbiology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Natural products remain a critical source of medicines and drug leads. One of the most
rapidly growing superclasses of natural products is RiPPs: ribosomally synthesized and …

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 …