Not always an innocent bystander: the impact of stabilised phosphopantetheine moieties when studying nonribosomal peptide biosynthesis.
Ho, Y.T.C., Kaczmarski, J.A., Tailhades, J., Izore, T., Steer, D.L., Schittenhelm, R.B., Tosin, M., Jackson, C.J., Cryle, M.J.(2023) Chem Commun (Camb) 59: 8234-8237
- PubMed: 37310188 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cc01578e
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
8FX6, 8FX7 - PubMed Abstract: 
Nonribosomal peptide synthetases produce many important peptide natural products and are centred around carrier proteins (CPs) that deliver intermediates to various catalytic domains. We show that the replacement of CP substrate thioesters by stabilised ester analogues leads to active condensation domain complexes, whereas amide stabilisation generates non-functional complexes.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia. max.cryle@monash.edu.