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Transcription factor decoys, DNA molecules designed to mimic regulatory DNAs and prevent repressors binding to their DNA targets, are used to achieve de-repression of silent biosynthetic gene clusters, resulting in production of new natural products.
Engineering of toehold-gated guide RNA (thgRNA) by tethering toehold riboswitches to sgRNAs enables the activation of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing or transcriptional regulation in response to complementary synthetic or endogenous cellular RNAs.
Structural analysis of prostaglandin E receptor EP3, a member of the prostanoid receptor subfamily of GPCRs, in complex with the endogenous agonist PGE2 reveals important interactions and motions required for receptor activation.
Plant-associated rhizosphere bacteria produce gramibactin, a cyclic lipodepsipeptide siderophore that tightly binds iron via an unexpected functional group, the N-nitrosohydroxylamine (diazeniumdiolate) moieties of the amino acid graminine.
Histone H3 serine 10 is found to be the major chromatin acceptor residue for DNA damage–induced ADP-ribosylation and is blocked by specific acetylation sites on PARP1 and/or H3.
A photoswitchable probe to control Ca2+ influx through L-type Ca2+ channels is useful in pancreatic β cells and can be employed to modulate beating rate in explanted hearts.
Three homologous cytochrome P450s from monoterpene indole alkaloid-producing plants enable the identification of sarpagan bridge enzyme, which catalyzes either cyclization or aromatization to yield sarpagan or β-carboline alkaloids, respectively.
The antibacterial microvionin contains two new lanthipeptide modifications, a triamino-dicarboxylic acid (avionin) and an N-terminal guanidino fatty acid, that lead to the establishment of the lipolanthine natural product class.
The structure of a monotopic polyprenol phosphate phosphoglycosyl transferase, PglC, reveals how it interacts with the bacterial membrane and coordinates a reaction between membrane-embedded and soluble substrates during glycoconjugate assembly.
The crystal structure of a methyltransferase domain embedded within an interrupted adenylation domain provides insight into how a nonribosomal peptide synthetase N-methylates amino acid precursors for their incorporation into the peptide product.
The discovery of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases that catalyze oxidative demethylation of 6-O-methyl-d-galactose reveals a new activity of cytochrome P450 enzymes and their role in polysaccharide biomass degradation in marine bacteria.
A de novo–designed protein, Syn-F4, hydrolyzes the siderophore ferric enterobactin both in vitro and in Escherichia coli cells, enabling a bacterial strain lacking the essential natural enterobactin esterase to grow in iron-limited medium.
