Chemistry and biology of enzymes in protein glutathionylation

D Oppong, W Schiff, MC Shivamadhu… - Current opinion in chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein S-glutathionylation is emerging as a central oxidation that regulates redox signaling
and biological processes linked to diseases. In recent years, the field of protein S …

Nisin-relevant antimicrobial peptides: synthesis strategies and applications

L Yuan, S Wu, K Tian, S Wang, H Wu, J Qiao - Food & Function, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Small pentacyclic peptides, represented by nisin, have been successfully utilized as
preservatives in the food industry and have evolved into a paradigm for understanding the …

Discovery of the lanthipeptide curvocidin and structural insights into its trifunctional synthetase CuvL

A Sigurdsson, BM Martins, SA Düttmann… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Lanthipeptides are ribosomally‐synthesized natural products from bacteria featuring stable
thioether‐crosslinks and various bioactivities. Herein, we report on a new clade of tricyclic …

Structure and function of a class III metal-independent lanthipeptide synthetase

A Hernandez Garcia, SK Nair - ACS Central Science, 2023 - ACS Publications
In bacteria, Ser/Thr protein kinase-like sequences are found as part of large multidomain
polypeptides that biosynthesize lanthipeptides, a class of natural products distinguished by …

The conformationally dynamic structural biology of lanthipeptide biosynthesis

CJ Thibodeaux - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Lanthipeptide synthetases are fascinating biosynthetic enzymes that install intramolecular
thioether bridges into genetically encoded peptides, typically endowing the peptide with …

Substrate Specificity of a Methyltransferase Involved in the Biosynthesis of the Lantibiotic Cacaoidin

H Liang, Y Luo, WA van der Donk - Biochemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Modification of the N-and C-termini of peptides enhances their stability against degradation
by exopeptidases. The biosynthetic pathways of many peptidic natural products feature …

Characterization of a LanC-free pathway for the formation of an ll-MeLan residue and an allo AviMeCys residue in the newly identified class V lanthipeptide …

W Ding, X Wang, Y Yin, J Tao, Y Xue, W Liu - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The thioether-connected bis-amino acid lanthionine (Lan) residues are class-defining
residues of lanthipeptides. Typically, the cyclization step of lanthionine formation, which …

[HTML][HTML] Embleporicin: A Novel Class I Lanthipeptide from the Actinobacteria Embleya sp. NF3

DO Roblero-Mejía, C García-Ausencio… - Antibiotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Genome mining has emerged as a revolutionary tool for discovering new ribosomally
synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) in various genomes …

Clickable Glutathione‐Based Identification of Cysteine Glutathionylation

NNJ Matarage Don, DSK Kukulage… - Current protocols, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Clickable glutathione is a glutathione‐derived chemical probe designed to identify and
analyze protein S‐glutathionylation, a major cysteine oxidation in redox signaling. An …

[BOK][B] Structural and functional insights into class-IV lanthipeptide biosynthesis

A Sigurdsson - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Natural products have served various functions in human civilization for thousands of years.
From food stuffs like caffeine to pharmaceuticals such as penicillin or vancomycin, they are …