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ArticleNature chemical biology2019

Analysis of modular bioengineered antimicrobial lanthipeptides at nanoliter scale.

Steven Schmitt, Manuel Montalbán-López, David Peterhoff, Jingjing Deng, Ralf Wagner, Martin Held, Oscar P Kuipers, Sven Panke

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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63citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 125 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Structure and Activity of Class II Lanthipeptides From a Thermophilic Bacterium.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  5. Repositioning the Leader Peptide in Graspetide Biosynthesis.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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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 at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Steven SchmittDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9492-8958
Manuel Montalbán-LópezDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2936-9077
David PeterhoffInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5911-6233
Jingjing DengDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Ralf WagnerInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Martin HeldDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5952-5659
Oscar P KuipersDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. o.p.kuipers@rug.nl.
Sven PankeDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland. sven.panke@bsse.ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9368-539X
ETH Zurich · CHUniversity of Groningen · NLInstitute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene · DEUniversity Hospital Regensburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rise of antibiotic resistance demands the acceleration of molecular diversification strategies to inspire new chemical entities for antibiotic medicines. We report here on the large-scale engineering of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified antimicrobial peptides carrying the ring-forming amino acid lanthionine. New-to-nature variants featuring distinct properties were obtained by combinatorial shuffling of peptide modules derived from 12 natural antimicrobial lanthipeptides and processing by a promiscuous post-translational modification machinery. For experimental characterization, we developed the nanoFleming, a miniaturized and parallelized high-throughput inhibition assay. On the basis of a hit set of >100 molecules, we identified variants with improved activity against pathogenic bacteria and shifted activity profiles, and extrapolated design guidelines that will simplify the identification of peptide-based anti-infectives in the future.

Indexed as

Protein EngineeringAlanineAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaDrug DesignMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPeptidesSulfidesAlanineAnti-Bacterial AgentslanthioninePeptidesSulfides

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PMID30936500
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