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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2021

Cellulonodin-2 and Lihuanodin: Lasso Peptides with an Aspartimide Post-Translational Modification.

Li Cao, Moshe Beiser, Joseph D Koos, Margarita Orlova, Hader E Elashal, Hendrik V Schröder, A James Link

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021. 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
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Evolution-Guided Discovery of Antimycobacterial Triculamin-Like Lasso Peptides.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Li CaoDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0276-6056
Moshe BeiserDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Joseph D KoosDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9613-7949
Margarita OrlovaDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Hader E ElashalDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
Hendrik V SchröderDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6126-0055
A James LinkDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5066-9691
Princeton University · US

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN GENETICST32GM007388 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI CRISTEA, ILEANA M. · 1985 to 2022
$27.4M
Lasso Peptide DiscoveryR01GM107036 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI LINK, AARON JAMES · 2014 to 2022
$2.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107036NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007388
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lasso peptides are a family of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) defined by their threaded structure. Besides the class-defining isopeptide bond, other post-translational modifications (PTMs) that further tailor lasso peptides have been previously reported. Using genome mining tools, we identified a subset of lasso peptide biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) that are colocalized with genes encoding protein l-isoaspartyl methyltransferase (PIMT) homologues. PIMTs have an important role in protein repair, restoring isoaspartate residues formed from asparagine deamidation to aspartate. Here we report a new function for PIMT enzymes in the post-translational modification of lasso peptides. The PIMTs associated with lasso peptide BGCs first methylate an l-aspartate side chain found within the ring of the lasso peptide. The methyl ester is then converted into a stable aspartimide moiety, endowing the lasso peptide ring with rigidity relative to its unmodified counterpart. We describe the heterologous expression and structural characterization of two examples of aspartimide-modified lasso peptides from thermophilic Gram-positive bacteria. The lasso peptide cellulonodin-2 is encoded in the genome of actinobacterium

Indexed as

Aspartic AcidBacillalesPeptidesProtein D-Aspartate-L-Isoaspartate MethyltransferaseProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalThermobifidaAspartic AcidaspartimidePeptidesProtein D-Aspartate-L-Isoaspartate Methyltransferase

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PMID34283601
PMCPMC9206484
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