Fungal arginine-containing cyclodipeptide synthases are finally revealed

Autor: Hang Li
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Engineering Microbiology, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 100080- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2667-3703
DOI: 10.1016/j.engmic.2023.100080
Popis: Biosynthetic pathways without any identifiable core enzymes may encode unknown (biosynthetic route)–unknown (molecular structure) natural products. However, bioinformatics-guided mining for such unknown-unknown metabolites is challenging. Recently, an unknown-unknown biosynthetic route has been deciphered in fungi. It was found that a class of enzymes previously annotated as hypothetical proteins catalyze the biosynthesis of arginine-containing cyclodipeptides (CDPs). This advances the understanding of the biosynthesis of CDPs and highlights the vast potential of unknown-unknown natural products encoded by microbial genomes.
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