Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25515891›Full record

ArticleNature chemistry2015

Substrate control in stereoselective lanthionine biosynthesis.

Weixin Tang, Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés, K N Houk, Wilfred A van der Donk

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature chemistry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
60citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Structure and Activity of Class II Lanthipeptides From a Thermophilic Bacterium.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Bibacillin 1: A two-component lantibiotic frombioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Hexagonal zinc oxide nanoparticles: a novel approach to combat multidrug-resistantFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024
    Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Expression of Lanthipeptides in Human Cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Weixin TangDepartment of Chemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Gonzalo Jiménez-OsésDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA.
K N HoukDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA.
Wilfred A van der DonkDepartment of Chemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.

Funding

Posttranslational Modifications in Natural Product BiosynthesisR01GM058822 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI VAN DER DONK, WILFRED A. · 1999 to 2015
$3.8M
Posttranslational Modifications during Natural Product BiosynthesisR37GM058822 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI VAN DER DONK, WILFRED A. · 2016 to 2025
$2.9M
Design of New Enzyme CatalystsR01GM075962 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HOUK, KENDALL N · 2009 to 2012
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM 075962NIGMS NIH HHS GM 58822NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM058822NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM075962
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enzymes are typically highly stereoselective catalysts that enforce a reactive conformation on their native substrates. We report here a rare example in which the substrate controls the stereoselectivity of an enzyme-catalysed Michael-type addition during the biosynthesis of lanthipeptides. These natural products contain thioether crosslinks formed by a cysteine attack on dehydrated Ser and Thr residues. We demonstrate that several lanthionine synthetases catalyse highly selective anti-additions in which the substrate (and not the enzyme) determines whether the addition occurs from the re or si face. A single point mutation in the peptide substrate completely inverted the stereochemical outcome of the enzymatic modification. Quantum mechanical calculations reproduced the experimentally observed selectivity and suggest that conformational restraints imposed by the amino-acid sequence on the transition states determine the face selectivity of the Michael-type cyclization.

Indexed as

AlanineAmino Acid SequenceCyclizationGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryMolecular Sequence DataProtein Structure, SecondaryQuantum TheoryStereoisomerismSubstrate SpecificitySulfidesThermodynamicsAlaninelanthionineSulfides

Identifiers

PMID25515891
PMCPMC4270103

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.