Advances in lasso peptide discovery, biosynthesis, and function

SE Barrett, DA Mitchell - Trends in Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
Lasso peptides are a large and sequence-diverse class of ribosomally synthesized and post-
translationally modified peptide (RiPP) natural products characterized by their slip knot-like …

Bacteriocin diversity, function, discovery and application as antimicrobials

I Sugrue, RP Ross, C Hill - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Bacteriocins are potent antimicrobial peptides that are produced by bacteria. Since their
discovery almost a century ago, diverse peptides have been discovered and described, and …

Proteases involved in leader peptide removal during RiPP biosynthesis

SM Eslami, WA van der Donk - ACS Bio & Med Chem Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) have received
much attention in recent years because of their promising bioactivities and the portability of …

Synthetic Biology of Natural Products Engineering: Recent Advances Across the Discover–Design–Build–Test–Learn Cycle

J Foldi, JA Connolly, E Takano… - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Advances in genome engineering and associated technologies have reinvigorated natural
products research. Here we highlight the latest developments in the field across the discover …

Metagenomic study of lake microbial mats reveals protease-inhibiting antiviral peptides from a core microbiome member

C Padhi, CM Field, CC Forneris, D Olszewski… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
In contrast to the large body of work on bioactive natural products from individually cultivated
bacteria, the chemistry of environmental microbial communities remains largely elusive …

Rule-based omics mining reveals antimicrobial macrocyclic peptides against drug-resistant clinical isolates

Z Cheng, BB He, K Lei, Y Gao, Y Shi, Z Zhong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance remains a significant global threat, driving up mortality rates
worldwide. Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides have …

Multicopy chromosome integration and deletion of negative global regulators significantly increased the heterologous production of aborycin in Streptomyces …

JY Li, JY Liang, ZY Liu, YZ Yi, J Zhao, ZY Huang… - Marine Drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Aborycin is a type I lasso peptide with a stable interlocked structure, offering a favorable
framework for drug development. The aborycin biosynthetic gene cluster gul from marine …

Tryptophan-Centric Bioinformatics Identifies New Lasso Peptide Modifications

LA Harris, H Saad, KE Shelton, L Zhu, X Guo… - Biochemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Lasso peptides are a class of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified
peptides (RiPPs) defined by a macrolactam linkage between the N-terminus and the side …

[HTML][HTML] Daropeptide natural products

S Ma, S Guo, W Ding, Q Zhang - Exploration of Drug Science, 2024 - explorationpub.com
Cyclophane-containing peptides comprise an important group of macrocyclic peptides with
unique structural properties and pharmaceutical relevance. Darobactin A is a ribosomally …

Biosynthesis-and Metabolomics-guided discovery of antimicrobial cyclopeptides against drug-resistant clinical isolates

Z Cheng, BB He, K Lei, Y Gao, Y Shi, Z Zhong, H Liu… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Antimicrobial resistance remains a significant global threat, contributing significantly to
mortality rates worldwide. Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified …