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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2019

Flexizyme-Enabled Benchtop Biosynthesis of Thiopeptides.

Steven R Fleming, Tessa E Bartges, Alexander A Vinogradov, Christine L Kirkpatrick, Yuki Goto, Hiroaki Suga, Leslie M Hicks, Albert A Bowers

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  7. Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance: Innovative Drugs in Antibacterial Research.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  13. Use of a head-to-tail peptide cyclase to prepare hybrid RiPPs.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Steven R FlemingDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States.
Tessa E BartgesDepartment of Chemistry , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States.
Alexander A VinogradovDepartment of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science , The University of Tokyo , Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo 113-0033 , Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8899-0533
Christine L KirkpatrickDepartment of Chemistry , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States.
Yuki GotoDepartment of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science , The University of Tokyo , Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo 113-0033 , Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4317-0790
Hiroaki SugaDepartment of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science , The University of Tokyo , Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo 113-0033 , Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5298-9186
Leslie M HicksDepartment of Chemistry , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States.
Albert A BowersDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8214-7484

Funding

MIRA Equipment SupplementR35GM125005 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Albert A Bowers · 2017 to 2026
$3.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM125005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thiopeptides are natural antibiotics that are fashioned from short peptides by multiple layers of post-translational modification. Their biosynthesis, in particular the pyridine synthases that form the macrocyclic antibiotic core, has attracted intensive research but is complicated by the challenges of reconstituting multiple-pathway enzymes. By combining select RiPP enzymes with cell free expression and flexizyme-based codon reprogramming, we have developed a benchtop biosynthesis of thiopeptide scaffolds. This strategy side-steps several challenges related to the investigation of thiopeptide enzymes and allows access to analytical quantities of new thiopeptide analogs. We further demonstrate that this strategy can be used to validate the activity of new pyridine synthases without the need to reconstitute the cognate prior pathway enzymes.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnti-Bacterial AgentsAptamers, NucleotidePeptides, CyclicProof of Concept StudyRNA, CatalyticSequence AlignmentThiazolesAnti-Bacterial AgentsAptamers, NucleotidePeptides, CyclicRNA, CatalyticThiazoles

Identifiers

PMID30602112
PMCPMC6642631

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