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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2016

Discovery and Characterization of Bicereucin, an Unusual d-Amino Acid-Containing Mixed Two-Component Lantibiotic.

Liujie Huo, Wilfred A van der Donk

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Antimicrobial Peptide Synergies for Fighting Infectious Diseases.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Liujie HuoHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Roger Adams Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Wilfred A van der DonkHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Roger Adams Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

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
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM058822NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM058822
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lantibiotics are a group of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) exhibiting antimicrobial activity. They are characterized by the presence of the thioether-containing bisamino acids lanthionine and methyllanthionine. Here, we report a two-component lantibiotic from Bacillus cereus SJ1 with unusual structural features that we named bicereucin. Unlike all previous two-component lantibiotics, only one of the two peptides of bicereucin contains a lanthionine. The second peptide lacks any cysteines but contains several d-amino acids. These are installed by the dehydrogenase BsjJB, the activity of which was successfully reconstituted in vitro. The proteolytic removal of the leader peptide was also performed in vitro. Bicereucin displayed synergistic antimicrobial activities against Gram-positive strains including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci as well as hemolytic activity. To illustrate the utility of the enzymes, an analog of the d-amino acid containing opioid dermorphin was successfully produced in E. coli by employing the dehydratase BsjM and the dehydrogenase NpnJA.

Indexed as

AlanineAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacillus cereusBacteriocinsCysteineMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusMicrobial Sensitivity TestsOxidoreductasesPeptidesProtein Sorting SignalsRabbitsRecombinant ProteinsSulfidesVancomycin-Resistant EnterococciAlanineAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriocinsCysteinelanthionineOxidoreductasesPeptidesProtein Sorting SignalsRecombinant ProteinsSulfides

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PMID27074593
PMCPMC4851115
OpenAlexW2338802566

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