Refining and expanding nonribosomal peptide synthetase function and mechanism

M McErlean, J Overbay… - Journal of Industrial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are involved in the biosynthesis of numerous
peptide and peptide-like natural products that have been exploited in medicine, agriculture …

Investigating the role of class I adenylate-forming enzymes in natural product biosynthesis

HK D'Ambrosio, ER Derbyshire - ACS Chemical Biology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Adenylate-forming enzymes represent one of the most important enzyme classes in biology,
responsible for the activation of carboxylate substrates for biosynthetic modifications. The …

Structural basis for backbone N-methylation by an interrupted adenylation domain

S Mori, AH Pang, TA Lundy, A Garzan… - Nature Chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
Interrupted adenylation domains are enigmatic fusions, in which one enzyme is inserted into
another to form a highly unusual bifunctional enzyme. We present the first crystal structure of …

Engineering bifunctional enzymes capable of adenylating and selectively methylating the side chain or core of amino acids

TA Lundy, S Mori, S Garneau-Tsodikova - ACS synthetic biology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nonribosomal peptides (NRPs) are known sources of therapeutics. Some nonribosomal
peptide synthetase assembly lines contain unique functional interrupted adenylation (A) …

One-pot biocombinatorial synthesis of herbicidal thaxtomins

G Jiang, R Zuo, Y Zhang, MM Powell, P Zhang… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thaxtomins are a group of phytotoxic diketopiperazines produced by tens of plant
pathogenic Streptomyces strains and have received considerable attention as bioherbicide …

[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 …

Stuffed methyltransferase catalyzes the penultimate step of pyochelin biosynthesis

TA Ronnebaum, JS McFarlane, TE Prisinzano… - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nonribosomal peptide synthetases use tailoring domains to incorporate chemical diversity
into the final natural product. A structurally unique set of tailoring domains are found to be …

Engineered biosynthesis through the adenylation domains from nonribosomal peptide synthetases

Z Lu, XH Liu, X Yuan, F Liu… - Current Topics in …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
Nonribosomal peptide synthetases, consisted of multiple catalytic domains, are involved in
the biosynthesis of an important family of bioactive natural products in a coordinated …

Characterization of a unique interrupted adenylation domain that can catalyze three reactions

TA Lundy, S Mori, N Thamban Chandrika… - ACS Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Interrupted adenylation (A) domains contain auxiliary domains within their structure and are
a subject of growing interest in the field of nonribosomal peptide biosynthesis. They have …

Using MbtH‐like proteins to alter the substrate profile of a nonribosomal peptide adenylation enzyme

S Mori, KD Green, R Choi, GW Buchko… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
MbtH‐like proteins (MLPs) are required for soluble expression and/or optimal activity of
some adenylation (A) domains of nonribosomal peptide synthetases. Because A domains …