New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering

Manuel Montalbán-López, Thomas A. Scott, Sangeetha Ramesh, Imran R. Rahman, Auke J. Van Heel, Jakob H. Viel, Vahe Bandarian, Elke Dittmann, Olga Genilloud, Yuki Goto, María José Grande Burgos, Colin Hill, Seokhee Kim, Jesko Koehnke, John A. Latham, A. James Link, Beatriz Martínez, Satish K. Nair, Yvain Nicolet, Sylvie RebuffatHans Georg Sahl, Dipti Sareen, Eric W. Schmidt, Lutz Schmitt, Konstantin Severinov, Roderich D. Süssmuth, Andrew W. Truman, Huan Wang, Jing Ke Weng, Gilles P. Van Wezel, Qi Zhang, Jin Zhong, Jörn Piel, Douglas A. Mitchell, Oscar P. Kuipers, Wilfred A. Van Der Donk

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Abstract

Covering: up to June 2020 Ribosomally-synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a large group of natural products. A community-driven review in 2013 described the emerging commonalities in the biosynthesis of RiPPs and the opportunities they offered for bioengineering and genome mining. Since then, the field has seen tremendous advances in understanding of the mechanisms by which nature assembles these compounds, in engineering their biosynthetic machinery for a wide range of applications, and in the discovery of entirely new RiPP families using bioinformatic tools developed specifically for this compound class. The First International Conference on RiPPs was held in 2019, and the meeting participants assembled the current review describing new developments since 2013. The review discusses the new classes of RiPPs that have been discovered, the advances in our understanding of the installation of both primary and secondary post-translational modifications, and the mechanisms by which the enzymes recognize the leader peptides in their substrates. In addition, genome mining tools used for RiPP discovery are discussed as well as various strategies for RiPP engineering. An outlook section presents directions for future research.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)130-239
Number of pages110
JournalNatural Product Reports
Volume38
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Drug Discovery
  • Organic Chemistry

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