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SUBMITTER: Sardar D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5764894 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sardar Debosmita D Hao Yue Y Lin Zhenjian Z Morita Maho M Nair Satish K SK Schmidt Eric W EW
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20170215 8
Recent innovations in peptide natural product biosynthesis reveal a surprising wealth of previously uncharacterized biochemical reactions that have potential applications in synthetic biology. Among these, the cyanobactins are noteworthy because these peptides are protected at their N- and C-termini by macrocyclization. Here, we use a novel bifunctional enzyme AgeMTPT to protect linear peptides by attaching prenyl and methyl groups at their free N- and C-termini. Using this peptide protectase in ...[more]