Peptide Publications Archive

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Oxidative Backbone Cleavage

Oxidative Backbone Cleavage

van der Donk Lab

Researchers in the van der Donk Group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, used genome …

Uniform Cleavage

Uniform Cleavage

Phan Lab

Researchers in the Phan Group at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, published in Communications Chemistry, have characterized a serine protease that cleaves precursor …

Leader-Dependent Prenylation

Leader-Dependent Prenylation

Agarwal Lab

Lipidation of macrocyclic peptides represents a pharmaceutically important chemical transformation. Adding lipid groups to peptides can enhance antibiotic activity, alter membrane transport properties, and improve …

NRPS Golden Gate

NRPS Golden Gate

Bode Lab

A modular Golden Gate–based workflow unites the XUT concept with non-ribosomal peptide synthetase engineering, enabling rapid, scarless assembly of hybrid enzymes. Over 100 constructs yielded …

Alkyne Grasp

Alkyne Grasp

Fujishiro Lab

ATP-grasp ligases offer a powerful route to diversify peptide structures, and BesA stands out for its ability to incorporate terminal alkyne groups into dipeptides with …

Lanthipeptide Modeling

Lanthipeptide Modeling

Walker Lab

Lanthipeptides, the thioether-crosslinked members of the RiPP family, are compelling antibiotic scaffolds. Yet, they have remained largely outside the reach of structure-based design. Standard modeling …

Macrocyclic Peptide Antibiotics

Macrocyclic Peptide Antibiotics

van der Donk Lab

Ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides, RiPPs, represent one of the most structurally diverse classes of natural products, yet many RiPP families remain biosynthetically uncharacterized...

Potent Antifungal Lipopeptide

Potent Antifungal Lipopeptide

Süssmuth Lab

In this study, researchers from the Süssmuth group at the Technische Universität Berlin, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, elucidated the …

Peptide Modifications

Peptide Modifications

Phan Lab

Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides, RiPPs, represent an expanding class of natural products distinguished by their extensive post-translational modifications. Among the enzymatic systems...

Genome Mining

Genome Mining

Agarwal Lab

Brominated intermediates have long been favored in organic synthesis for their chemical versatility, particularly in transition-metal-assisted bond-forming reactions. The Agarwal and van der Donk study …

Graspetides

Graspetides

Ding Lab

Published in ACS Chemical Biology, researchers in the Ding Group at the University of Florida, reconstructed prunipeptin biosynthesis from Streptomyces coelicolor...