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Bioinformatic Analysis Reveals both Oversampled and Underexplored Biosynthetic Diversity in Nonribosomal Peptides
[Image: see text] The traditional natural product discovery approach has accessed only a fraction of the chemical diversity in nature. The use of bioinformatic tools to interpret the instructions encoded in microbial biosynthetic genes has the potential to circumvent the existing methodological bott...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10028606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36820820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.2c00761 |
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author | Jian, Bo-Siyuan Chiou, Shao-Lun Hsu, Chun-Chia Ho, Josh Wu, Yu-Wei Chu, John |
author_facet | Jian, Bo-Siyuan Chiou, Shao-Lun Hsu, Chun-Chia Ho, Josh Wu, Yu-Wei Chu, John |
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description | [Image: see text] The traditional natural product discovery approach has accessed only a fraction of the chemical diversity in nature. The use of bioinformatic tools to interpret the instructions encoded in microbial biosynthetic genes has the potential to circumvent the existing methodological bottlenecks and greatly expand the scope of discovery. Structural prediction algorithms for nonribosomal peptides (NRPs), the largest family of microbial natural products, lie at the heart of this new approach. To understand the scope and limitation of the existing prediction algorithms, we evaluated their performances on NRP synthetase biosynthetic gene clusters. Our systematic analysis shows that the NRP biosynthetic landscape is uneven. Phenylglycine and its derivatives as a group of NRP building blocks (BBs), for example, have been oversampled, reflecting an extensive historical interest in the glycopeptide antibiotics family. In contrast, the benzoyl BB, including 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate (DHB), has been the most underexplored, hinting at the possibility of a reservoir of as yet unknown DHB containing NRPs with functional roles other than a siderophore. Our results also suggest that there is still vast unexplored biosynthetic diversity in nature, and the analysis presented herein shall help guide and strategize future natural product discovery campaigns. We also discuss possible ways bioinformaticians and biochemists could work together to improve the existing prediction algorithms. |
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spelling | pubmed-100286062023-03-22 Bioinformatic Analysis Reveals both Oversampled and Underexplored Biosynthetic Diversity in Nonribosomal Peptides Jian, Bo-Siyuan Chiou, Shao-Lun Hsu, Chun-Chia Ho, Josh Wu, Yu-Wei Chu, John ACS Chem Biol [Image: see text] The traditional natural product discovery approach has accessed only a fraction of the chemical diversity in nature. The use of bioinformatic tools to interpret the instructions encoded in microbial biosynthetic genes has the potential to circumvent the existing methodological bottlenecks and greatly expand the scope of discovery. Structural prediction algorithms for nonribosomal peptides (NRPs), the largest family of microbial natural products, lie at the heart of this new approach. To understand the scope and limitation of the existing prediction algorithms, we evaluated their performances on NRP synthetase biosynthetic gene clusters. Our systematic analysis shows that the NRP biosynthetic landscape is uneven. Phenylglycine and its derivatives as a group of NRP building blocks (BBs), for example, have been oversampled, reflecting an extensive historical interest in the glycopeptide antibiotics family. In contrast, the benzoyl BB, including 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate (DHB), has been the most underexplored, hinting at the possibility of a reservoir of as yet unknown DHB containing NRPs with functional roles other than a siderophore. Our results also suggest that there is still vast unexplored biosynthetic diversity in nature, and the analysis presented herein shall help guide and strategize future natural product discovery campaigns. We also discuss possible ways bioinformaticians and biochemists could work together to improve the existing prediction algorithms. American Chemical Society 2023-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10028606/ /pubmed/36820820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.2c00761 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Permits non-commercial access and re-use, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained; but does not permit creation of adaptations or other derivative works (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Jian, Bo-Siyuan Chiou, Shao-Lun Hsu, Chun-Chia Ho, Josh Wu, Yu-Wei Chu, John Bioinformatic Analysis Reveals both Oversampled and Underexplored Biosynthetic Diversity in Nonribosomal Peptides |
title | Bioinformatic
Analysis Reveals both Oversampled and
Underexplored Biosynthetic Diversity in Nonribosomal Peptides |
title_full | Bioinformatic
Analysis Reveals both Oversampled and
Underexplored Biosynthetic Diversity in Nonribosomal Peptides |
title_fullStr | Bioinformatic
Analysis Reveals both Oversampled and
Underexplored Biosynthetic Diversity in Nonribosomal Peptides |
title_full_unstemmed | Bioinformatic
Analysis Reveals both Oversampled and
Underexplored Biosynthetic Diversity in Nonribosomal Peptides |
title_short | Bioinformatic
Analysis Reveals both Oversampled and
Underexplored Biosynthetic Diversity in Nonribosomal Peptides |
title_sort | bioinformatic
analysis reveals both oversampled and
underexplored biosynthetic diversity in nonribosomal peptides |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10028606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36820820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.2c00761 |
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