scholarly journals Radical SAM enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of purine-based natural products

2012 ◽  
Vol 1824 (11) ◽  
pp. 1245-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahe Bandarian
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alhosna Benjdia ◽  
Olivier Berteau

To face the current antibiotic resistance crisis, novel strategies are urgently required. Indeed, in the last 30 years, despite considerable efforts involving notably high-throughput screening and combinatorial libraries, only few antibiotics have been launched to the market. Natural products have markedly contributed to the discovery of novel antibiotics, chemistry and drug leads, with more than half anti-infective and anticancer drugs approved by the FDA being of natural origin or inspired by natural products. Among them, thanks to their modular structure and simple biosynthetic logic, ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are promising scaffolds. In addition, recent studies have highlighted the pivotal role of RiPPs in the human microbiota which remains an untapped source of natural products. In this review, we report on recent developments in radical SAM enzymology and how these unique biocatalysts have been shown to install complex and sometimes unprecedented posttranslational modifications in RiPPs with a special focus on microbiome derived enzymes.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1824 (11) ◽  
pp. 1231-1244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark W. Ruszczycky ◽  
Yasushi Ogasawara ◽  
Hung-wen Liu

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 660-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenichi Yokoyama ◽  
Edward A. Lilla

An emerging group of radical SAM enzymes that catalyze C–C bond formations in natural product and cofactor biosynthesis are discussed.


Biochemistry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia K. Lewis ◽  
Andrew S. Jochimsen ◽  
Sarah J. Lefave ◽  
Anthony P. Young ◽  
William M. Kincannon ◽  
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