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ArticleChembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology2020

Discovery of Ubonodin, an Antimicrobial Lasso Peptide Active against Members of the Burkholderia cepacia Complex.

Wai Ling Cheung-Lee, Madison E Parry, Chuhan Zong, Alexis Jaramillo Cartagena, Seth A Darst, Nancy D Connell, Riccardo Russo, A James Link

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Article in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Tangled Tail of Mechanically Interlocked Peptides.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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  3. Bioprotective Strategies to ControlInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  4. Lasso Peptides-A New Weapon Against Superbugs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  5. Evolution-Guided Discovery of Antimycobacterial Triculamin-Like Lasso Peptides.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  6. Lasso peptides: A focus on therapeutic index.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2025
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  10. High-Yield Lasso Peptide Production in aACS synthetic biology · 2024
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  13. Mutexa: A Computational Ecosystem for Intelligent Protein Engineering.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2023
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  16. Bacterial natural product discovery by heterologous expression.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2023
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  18. Compilation of the Antimicrobial Compounds Produced byMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Wai Ling Cheung-LeeDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, 207 Hoyt Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.
Madison E ParryDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, 207 Hoyt Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.
Chuhan ZongDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, 207 Hoyt Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.
Alexis Jaramillo CartagenaLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics and, Tri-Institutional Training Program in Chemical Biology, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave., New York, NY, 10065, USA.
Seth A DarstLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics and, Tri-Institutional Training Program in Chemical Biology, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave., New York, NY, 10065, USA.
Nancy D ConnellCenter for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 621 E. Pratt St. Suite 210, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA.
Riccardo RussoCenter for Emerging Pathogens, Division of Infectious Disease, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences University, 185 South Orange Ave., Newark, NJ, 07103, USA.
A James LinkDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, 207 Hoyt Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5066-9691
Princeton University · USTri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology · USJohns Hopkins University · USRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

Structure, function, and regulation of the bacterial transcription cycleR35GM118130 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI DARST, SETH A. · 2016 to 2025
$8.9M
Lasso Peptide DiscoveryR01GM107036 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI LINK, AARON JAMES · 2014 to 2022
$2.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107036NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118130
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the heterologous expression, structure, and antimicrobial activity of a lasso peptide, ubonodin, encoded in the genome of Burkholderia ubonensis. The topology of ubonodin is unprecedented amongst lasso peptides, with 18 of its 28 amino acids found in the mechanically bonded loop segment. Ubonodin inhibits RNA polymerase in vitro and has potent antimicrobial activity against several pathogenic members of the Burkholderia genus, most notably B. cepacia and B. multivorans, causative agents of lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients.

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Drug DiscoveryAnti-Bacterial AgentsBurkholderia cepacia complexDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesHumansPore Forming Cytotoxic ProteinsAnti-Bacterial AgentsDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesPore Forming Cytotoxic Proteinsantibioticslasso peptidesnatural productspeptidesRiPP

Identifiers

PMID31765515
PMCPMC7205569
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