Mechanism of action of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides

C Ongpipattanakul, EK Desormeaux… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a natural
product class that has undergone significant expansion due to the rapid growth in genome …

New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering

M Montalbán-López, TA Scott, S Ramesh… - Natural product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to June 2020 Ribosomally-synthesized and post-translationally modified
peptides (RiPPs) are a large group of natural products. A community-driven review in 2013 …

Mining and unearthing hidden biosynthetic potential

K Scherlach, C Hertweck - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Genetically encoded small molecules (secondary metabolites) play eminent roles in
ecological interactions, as pathogenicity factors and as drug leads. Yet, these chemical …

Comprehensive prediction of secondary metabolite structure and biological activity from microbial genome sequences

MA Skinnider, CW Johnston… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Novel antibiotics are urgently needed to address the looming global crisis of antibiotic
resistance. Historically, the primary source of clinically used antibiotics has been microbial …

Current trends, limitations and future research in the fungi?

KD Hyde, P Baldrian, Y Chen, KW Thilini Chethana… - Fungal Diversity, 2024 - Springer
The field of mycology has grown from an underappreciated subset of botany, to a valuable,
modern scientific discipline. As this field of study has grown, there have been significant …

Strategies to access biosynthetic novelty in bacterial genomes for drug discovery

F Hemmerling, J Piel - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Bacteria provide a rich source of natural products with potential therapeutic applications,
such as novel antibiotic classes or anticancer drugs. Bioactivity-guided screening of …

A new genome-mining tool redefines the lasso peptide biosynthetic landscape

JI Tietz, CJ Schwalen, PS Patel, T Maxson… - Nature chemical …, 2017 - nature.com
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPP) natural products
are attractive for genome-driven discovery and re-engineering, but limitations in …

Mechanistic understanding of lanthipeptide biosynthetic enzymes

LM Repka, JR Chekan, SK Nair… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Lanthipeptides are ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides
(RiPPs) that display a wide variety of biological activities, from antimicrobial to antiallodynic …

PRISM 3: expanded prediction of natural product chemical structures from microbial genomes

MA Skinnider, NJ Merwin, CW Johnston… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Microbial natural products represent a rich resource of pharmaceutically and industrially
important compounds. Genome sequencing has revealed that the majority of natural …

Metabolomics and genomics in natural products research: complementary tools for targeting new chemical entities

LK Caesar, R Montaser, NP Keller… - Natural product reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2021 Organisms in nature have evolved into proficient synthetic chemists,
utilizing specialized enzymatic machinery to biosynthesize an inspiring diversity of …