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ArticleBiochemistry2010

Anthranilate-activating modules from fungal nonribosomal peptide assembly lines.

Brian D Ames, Christopher T Walsh

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Article in Biochemistry, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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51 citing papers in PubMed, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brian D AmesDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Christopher T Walsh
Harvard University · US

Funding

The Vancomycin Biosynthetic Assembly lineR01GM049338 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALSH, CHRISTOPHER T · 1993 to 2012
$6.2M
Anthranilate-Based Fungal Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Assembly LinesF32GM090475 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI AMES, BRIAN DOUGLAS · 2010 to 2011
$91k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM090475NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM090475NIGMS NIH HHS GM49338NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM049338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungal natural products containing benzodiazepinone- and quinazolinone-fused ring systems can be assembled by nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) using the conformationally restricted beta-amino acid anthranilate as one of the key building blocks. We validated that the first module of the acetylaszonalenin synthetase of Neosartorya fischeri NRRL 181 activates anthranilate to anthranilyl-AMP. With this as a starting point, we then used bioinformatic predictions about fungal adenylation domain selectivities to identify and confirm an anthranilate-activating module in the fumiquinazoline A producer Aspergillus fumigatus Af293 as well as a second anthranilate-activating NRPS in N. fischeri. This establishes an anthranilate adenylation domain code for fungal NRPS and should facilitate detection and cloning of gene clusters for benzodiazepine- and quinazoline-containing polycyclic alkaloids with a wide range of biological activities.

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Amino Acid SequenceAspergillus fumigatusCarbon RadioisotopesCloning, MolecularDNA PrimersFungal ProteinsFungiIsotope LabelingKineticsModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataOpen Reading Framesortho-AminobenzoatesRecombinant Proteinsanthranilic acidCarbon RadioisotopesDNA PrimersFungal Proteinsortho-AminobenzoatesRecombinant Proteins

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PMID20225828
PMCPMC2854178
OpenAlexW2049709457

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