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Roads to Rome: Role of Multiple Cassettes in Cyanobactin RiPP Biosynthesis.

ABSTRACT: Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are ubiquitous natural products. Bioactive RiPPs are produced from a precursor peptide, which is modified by enzymes. Usually, a single product is encoded in a precursor peptide. However, in cyanobactins and several other RiPP pathways, a single precursor peptide encodes multiple bioactive products flanking with recognition sequences known as "cassettes". The role of multiple cassettes in one peptide is mysterious, but in general their presence is a marker of biosynthetic plasticity. Here, we show that in cyanobactin biosynthesis the presence of multiple cassettes confers distributive enzyme processing to multiple steps of the pathway, a feature we propose to be a hallmark of multicassette RiPPs. TruD heterocyclase is stochastic and distributive. Although a canonical biosynthetic route is favored with certain substrates, every conceivable biosynthetic route is accepted. Together, these factors afford greater plasticity to the biosynthetic pathway by equalizing the processing of each cassette, enabling access to chemical diversity.

SUBMITTER: Gu W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6433372 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Roads to Rome: Role of Multiple Cassettes in Cyanobactin RiPP Biosynthesis.

Gu Wenjia W Sardar Debosmita D Pierce Elizabeth E Schmidt Eric W EW

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20181114 47

Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are ubiquitous natural products. Bioactive RiPPs are produced from a precursor peptide, which is modified by enzymes. Usually, a single product is encoded in a precursor peptide. However, in cyanobactins and several other RiPP pathways, a single precursor peptide encodes multiple bioactive products flanking with recognition sequences known as "cassettes". The role of multiple cassettes in one peptide is mysterious, but in ...[more]

PMID: 30387998

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