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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2024

Critical analysis of polycyclic tetramate macrolactam biosynthetic gene cluster phylogeny and functional diversity.

Christopher P Harper, Anna Day, Maya Tsingos, Edward Ding, Elizabeth Zeng, Spencer D Stumpf, Yunci Qi, Adam Robinson, Jennifer Greif, Joshua A V Blodgett

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Christopher P Harper *Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4079-519X
Anna Day *Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Maya TsingosDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Edward DingDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Elizabeth ZengDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Spencer D StumpfDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Yunci QiDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Adam RobinsonDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Jennifer GreifDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Joshua A V BlodgettDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7080-5870

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) 1846005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polycyclic tetramate macrolactams (PTMs) are bioactive natural products commonly associated with certain actinobacterial and proteobacterial lineages. These molecules have been the subject of numerous structure-activity investigations since the 1970s. New members continue to be pursued in wild and engineered bacterial strains, and advances in PTM biosynthesis suggest their outwardly simplistic biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) belie unexpected product complexity. To address the origins of this complexity and understand its influence on PTM discovery, we engaged in a combination of bioinformatics to systematically classify PTM BGCs and PTM-targeted metabolomics to compare the products of select BGC types. By comparing groups of producers and BGC mutants, we exposed knowledge gaps that complicate bioinformatics-driven product predictions. In sum, we provide new insights into the evolution of PTM BGCs while systematically accounting for the PTMs discovered thus far. The combined computational and metabologenomic findings presented here should prove useful for guiding future discovery.

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Multigene FamilyPhylogenyBiosynthetic PathwaysComputational BiologyLactamsLysobacterStreptomycesLactamsbiosynthetic gene clusterscomparative metabologenomicsphylogenypolycyclic tetramate macrolactams

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PMID38771054
PMCPMC11218653

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