Therapeutic peptides: current applications and future directions

L Wang, N Wang, W Zhang, X Cheng, Z Yan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Peptide drug development has made great progress in the last decade thanks to new
production, modification, and analytic technologies. Peptides have been produced and …

Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering of actinomycetes for natural product discovery

E Palazzotto, Y Tong, SY Lee, T Weber - Biotechnology Advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Actinomycetes are one of the most valuable sources of natural products with industrial and
medicinal importance. After more than half a century of exploitation, it has become …

Modification and de novo design of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases using specific assembly points within condensation domains

KAJ Bozhüyük, A Linck, A Tietze, J Kranz, F Wesche… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are giant enzyme machines that activate
amino acids in an assembly line fashion. As NRPSs are not restricted to the incorporation of …

Structures of a dimodular nonribosomal peptide synthetase reveal conformational flexibility

JM Reimer, M Eivaskhani, I Harb, A Guarné, M Weigt… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are microbial megaenzymes
that make a wide variety of small-molecule products, including many that are clinically used …

Structure, properties, and biological functions of nonribosomal lipopeptides from pseudomonads

S Götze, P Stallforth - Natural product reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas are ubiquitous in nature. Pseudomonads display a
fascinating metabolic diversity, which correlates with their ability to colonize an extremely …

Beyond peptide bond formation: the versatile role of condensation domains in natural product biosynthesis

S Dekimpe, J Masschelein - Natural product reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the end of 2020 Nonribosomal peptide synthetases are remarkable
molecular machines that produce a wide range of structurally complex peptide natural …

Engineering the biosynthesis of fungal nonribosomal peptides

L Zhang, C Wang, K Chen, W Zhong, Y Xu… - Natural Product …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2011 up to the end of 2021. Fungal nonribosomal peptides (NRPs) and the
related polyketide–nonribosomal peptide hybrid products (PK–NRPs) are a prolific source of …

Efficient rational modification of non-ribosomal peptides by adenylation domain substitution

MJ Calcott, JG Owen, DF Ackerley - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) enzymes form modular assembly-lines, wherein
each module governs the incorporation of a specific monomer into a short peptide product …

The landscape of recombination events that create nonribosomal peptide diversity

M Baunach, S Chowdhury, P Stallforth… - … Biology and Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Nonribosomal peptides (NRP) are crucial molecular mediators in microbial ecology and
provide indispensable drugs. Nevertheless, the evolution of the flexible biosynthetic …

Structural advances toward understanding the catalytic activity and conformational dynamics of modular nonribosomal peptide synthetases

KD Patel, MR MacDonald, SF Ahmed, J Singh… - Natural Product …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to fall 2022. Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are a family of
modular, multidomain enzymes that catalyze the biosynthesis of important peptide natural …