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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2016

Structure of the Lasso Peptide Isopeptidase Identifies a Topology for Processing Threaded Substrates.

Jonathan R Chekan, Joseph D Koos, Chuhan Zong, Mikhail O Maksimov, A James Link, Satish K Nair

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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 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Tangled Tail of Mechanically Interlocked Peptides.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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  4. Evolution-Guided Discovery of Antimycobacterial Triculamin-Like Lasso Peptides.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  13. How to harness biosynthetic gene clusters of lasso peptides.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2020
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  14. Lasso Peptides: Heterologous Production and Potential Medical Application.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020
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  15. Genome mining for lasso peptides: past, present, and future.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jonathan R ChekanDepartment of Biochemistry, ‡Institute for Genomic Biology and §Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States and.
Joseph D KoosDepartment of Biochemistry, ‡Institute for Genomic Biology and §Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States and.
Chuhan ZongDepartment of Biochemistry, ‡Institute for Genomic Biology and §Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States and.
Mikhail O MaksimovDepartment of Biochemistry, ‡Institute for Genomic Biology and §Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States and.
A James LinkDepartment of Biochemistry, ‡Institute for Genomic Biology and §Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States and.ORCID 0000-0001-5066-9691
Satish K NairDepartment of Biochemistry, ‡Institute for Genomic Biology and §Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States and.ORCID 0000-0003-1790-1334
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN GENETICST32GM007388 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI CRISTEA, ILEANA M. · 1985 to 2022
$27.4M
Structural /Mechanistic Study of Lantibiotic Biosynthetic Enzymes & AutoimmunityR01GM079038 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI NAIR, SATISH K · 2006 to 2023
$3.7M
Lasso Peptide DiscoveryR01GM107036 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI LINK, AARON JAMES · 2014 to 2022
$2.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079038NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107036NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007388
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lasso peptides are a class of bioactive ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs), with a threaded knot structure that is formed by an isopeptide bond attaching the N-terminus of the peptide to a side chain carboxylate. Some lasso peptide biosynthetic clusters harbor an enzyme that specifically hydrolyzes the isopeptide bond to yield the linear peptide. We describe here the 2.4 Å resolution structure of a lasso peptide isopeptidase revealing a topologically novel didomain architecture consisting of an open β-propeller appended to an α/β hydrolase domain. The 2.2 Å resolution cocrystal structure of an inactive variant in complex with a lasso peptide reveals deformation of the substrate, and reorganization of the enzyme active site, which exposes and orients the isopeptide bond for hydrolysis. Structure-based mutational analysis reveals how this enzyme recognizes the lasso peptide substrate by shape complementarity rather than through sequence specificity. The isopeptidase gene can be used to facilitate genome mining, as a network-based mining strategy queried with this sequence identified 87 putative lasso peptide biosynthetic clusters, 65 of which have not been previously described. Lastly, we validate this mining approach by heterologous expression of two clusters encoded within the genome of Asticcaucalis benevestitus, and demonstrate that both clusters produce lasso peptides.

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Protein Processing, Post-TranslationalCarbon-Nitrogen LyasesPeptidesProtein DomainsCarbon-Nitrogen LyasesisopeptidasePeptides

Identifiers

PMID27998080
PMCPMC5245167
OpenAlexW2556154591

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