Recent advances in the structural analysis of adenylation domains in natural product biosynthesis

A Miyanaga, F Kudo, T Eguchi - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Adenylation (A) domains catalyze the biosynthetic incorporation of acyl building blocks into
nonribosomal peptides and related natural products by selectively transferring acyl …

The chromodepsins–chemistry, biology and biosynthesis of a selective Gq inhibitor natural product family

C Hermes, GM König, M Crüsemann - Natural product reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to April 2021 The bacterial cyclic depsipeptides FR900359 (FR) and YM-
254890 (YM) were shown to selectively inhibit Gαq proteins with high potency and selectivity …

Discovery of unusual dimeric piperazyl cyclopeptides encoded by a Lentzea flaviverrucosa DSM 44664 biosynthetic supercluster

C Li, Y Hu, X Wu, SD Stumpf, Y Qi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Rare actinomycetes represent an underexploited source of new bioactive compounds. Here,
we report the use of a targeted metabologenomic approach to identify piperazyl compounds …

Biosynthesis of the corallorazines, a widespread class of antibiotic cyclic lipodipeptides

TM Dreckmann, L Fritz, CFF Kaiser… - RSC Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Corallorazines are cyclic lipodipeptide natural products produced by the myxobacterium
Corallococcus coralloides B035. To decipher the basis of corallorazine biosynthesis, the …

[HTML][HTML] Functional Diversity and Engineering of the Adenylation Domains in Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases

M Zhang, Z Peng, Z Huang, J Fang, X Li, X Qiu - Marine Drugs, 2024 - mdpi.com
Nonribosomal peptides (NRPs) are biosynthesized by nonribosomal peptide synthetases
(NRPSs) and are widely distributed in both terrestrial and marine organisms. Many NRPs …

Lessons learned in engineering interrupted adenylation domains when attempting to create trifunctional enzymes from three independent monofunctional ones

TA Lundy, S Mori, S Garneau-Tsodikova - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Interrupted adenylation (A) domains are fascinating examples of multifunctional enzymes.
They are found in nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs), which biosynthesize …

(S)‐3‐aminopiperidine‐2,6‐dione is a biosynthetic intermediate of microbial blue pigment indigoidine

Z Zhang, P Li, M Wang, Y Zhang, B Wu, Y Tao, G Pan… - Mlife, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The biosynthetic investigations of microbial natural products continuously provide powerful
biocatalysts for the preparation of valuable chemicals. Practical methods for preparing (S)‐3 …