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ArticleJACS Au2026

PARAS: High-Accuracy Machine Learning of Substrate Specificities in Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases.

Barbara R Terlouw, Chuan Huang, David Meijer, José D D Cediel-Becerra, Ruolin He, Marlene L Rothe, Matthew Jenner, Shanshan Zhou, Yu Zhang, Christopher D Fage and 8 more

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Article in JACS Au, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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18 authors.

Barbara R TerlouwBioinformatics Group, Department of Plant Science, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4058-6718
Chuan HuangDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5364-3053
David MeijerBioinformatics Group, Department of Plant Science, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.
José D D Cediel-BecerraDepartment of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32603, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6496-2071
Ruolin HeBioinformatics Group, Department of Plant Science, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2163-5526
Marlene L RotheDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
Matthew JennerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2317-3011
Shanshan ZhouDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
Yu ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
Christopher D FageDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
Yuta TsunematsuGraduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6750-8034
Gilles P van WezelInstitute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden 2333 BE, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0341-1561
Serina L RobinsonDepartment of Environmental Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6947-7913
Fabrizio AlbertiSchool of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6585-0696
Lona M AlkhalafDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7147-2775
Marc G ChevretteDepartment of Plant Pathology and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7209-0717
Gregory L ChallisDepartment of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-3545
Marnix H MedemaBioinformatics Group, Department of Plant Science, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-2821

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonribosomal peptides are diverse natural products with important applications in medicine and agriculture. Bacterial and fungal genomes contain thousands of nonribosomal peptide biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) of unknown function, providing a promising resource for peptide discovery. Core structural features of such peptides can be inferred by predicting the substrate(s) of adenylation (A) domains in nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs). However, existing approaches to A domain prediction rely on limited data sets and often struggle with domains selecting large substrates and domains from underrepresented taxa. Here, we systematically curate and computationally analyze 3653 A domains and present two high-accuracy specificity predictors, PARAS and PARASECT. A type of A domain with unusually high l-tryptophan specificity was identified through the application of PARAS. Cloning and expression of the biosynthetic gene cluster encoding the NRPS showed that it directs the biosynthesis of tryptopeptin-related metabolites in

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intact protein mass spectrometryNRPS adenylation domain predictionPARASPARASECTXAI

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PMCPMC13126170

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