Nonribosomal peptide synthetases: structures and dynamics.
Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are large multimodular biocatalysts that utilize complex regiospecific and stereospecific reactions to assemble structurally and functionally diverse peptides that have important medicinal applications. During this ribosome-independent peptide synthesis, catalytic domains of NRPS select, activate or modify the covalently tethered reaction intermediates to control the iterative chain elongation process and product release. Recent advances in structural elucidation of domains, didomains, and an entire termination module revealed valuable insights into the mechanism of nonribosomal synthesis and are highlighted herein.
Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse, Marburg, Germany.
Matthias
M
Strieker
Alan
A
Tanović
Mohamed A
MA
Marahiel
D000818:Animals; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D046908:Peptide Biosynthesis, Nucleic Acid-Independent / Q000502:physiology*; D010453:Peptide Synthases / Q000737:chemistry*; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013379:Substrate Specificity
D010455:Peptides; D010453:Peptide Synthases; C104385:non-ribosomal peptide synthase