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Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of Pac17 from the pacidamycin-biosynthetic cluster of Streptomyces coeruleorubidus

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Daniel R. Tromans ; Clare E. M. Stevenson ; Rebecca J. M. Goss ; David M. Lawson Acta Cryst 2012, F68 971-974 Pac17 is an uncharacterized protein from the pacidamycin gene cluster of the soil bacterium Streptomyces coeruleorubidus. It is implicated in the biosynthesis of the core diaminobutyric acid residue of the antibiotic, although its precise role is … Read more

Characterisation of spin coated engineered Escherichia coli biofilms using atomic force microscopy

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Andreas N. Tsoligkas ; James Bowen ; Michael Winn ; Rebecca J. M. Goss ; Tim W. Overton ; Mark J. H. Simmons Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 2012, 89 152-160 The ability of biofilms to withstand chemical and physical extremes gives them the potential to be developed as robust biocatalysts. Critical to this issue is their … Read more

Biofilms and their engineered counterparts: A new generation of immobilised biocatalysts

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Michael Winn ; Joanne M. Foulkes ; Stefano Perni ; Mark J. H. Simmons ; Tim W. Overton ; Rebecca J. M. Goss Cat Sci Tech 2012, 2 1544-1547 The robust nature of biofilms makes them medicinally difficult to treat, however this same property renders them an attractive method for protecting and immobilising enzymes for biotransformation. … Read more

Biogenesis of the Unique 4 ‘,5 ‘-Dehydronucleoside of the Uridyl Peptide Antibiotic Pacidamycin

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Amany E. Ragab ; Sabine Grüschow ; Daniel R. Tromans ; Rebecca J. M. Goss JACS 2011, 133 (39) 15288-15291 The pacidamycins belong to a class of antimicrobial nucleoside antibiotics that act by inhibiting the clinically unexploited target translocase I, a key enzyme in peptidoglycan assembly. As with other nucleoside antibiotics, the pacidamycin 4′,5′-dehydronucleoside portion is … Read more

Engineering Biofilms for Biocatalysis

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Andreas N. Tsoligkas ; Michael Winn ; James Bowen ; Tim W. Overton ; Mark J. H. Simmons ; Rebecca J. M. Goss ChemBioChem 2011, 12 (9) 1391-1395 Biofilm, friend not foe: Single species biofilms can be engineered to form robust biocatalysts with greater catalytic activity and significantly improved catalytic longevity than purified and immobilised enzymes. We … Read more

Diversity in natural product families is governed by more than enzyme promiscuity alone : establishing control of the pacidamycin portfolio

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Sabine Grüschow ; Emma J. Rackham ; Rebecca J. M. Goss Chem Sci 2011, 2 2182-2186 As with many other antibiotics, pacidamycins are produced as a suite of related compounds. Unlike most other secondary metabolites, however, this diversity is not solely the result of the substrate promiscuity of the biosynthetic enzymes but also arises from a gene duplication event (Pac21, … Read more

Gene Expression Enabling Synthetic Diversification of Natural Products : Chemogenetic Generation of Pacidamycin Analogs

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Abhijeet Deb Roy ; Sabine Grueschow ; Nickiwe Cairns ; Rebecca J. M. Goss JACS 2010, 132 (35) 12243-12245 Introduction of prnA, the halogenase gene from pyrrolnitrin biosynthesis, into Streptomyces coeruleorubidus resulted in efficient in situ chlorination of the uridyl peptide antibotic pacidamycin. The installed chlorine provided a selectably functionalizable handle enabling synthetic modification of the natural product using mild cross-coupling … Read more

Pacidamycin Biosynthesis : Identification and Heterologous Expression of the First Uridyl Peptide Antibiotic Gene Cluster

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Emma J. Rackham ; Sabine Grüschow ; Amany E. Ragab ; Shilo Dickens ; Rebecca J. M. Goss ChemBioChem 2010, 11 (12) 1700-1709 The pacidamycins are antimicrobial nucleoside antibiotics produced by Streptomyces coeruleorubidus that inhibit translocase I, an essential bacterial enzyme yet to be clinically targeted. The novel pacidamycin scaffold is composed of a pseudopeptide backbone linked by … Read more

An Expeditious Route to Fluorinated Rapamycin Analogues by Utilising Mutasynthesis

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Rebecca J. M. Goss ; Simon Lanceron ; Abhijeet Deb Roy ; Simon Sprague ; Mohammed Nur-e-Alam ; David L. Hughes ; Barrie Wilkinson ; Steven J. Moss ChemBioChem 2010, 11 (5) 698-702 Rapamycin is a drug with several important clinical uses. Its complex structure means that total synthesis of this natural product and its analogues … Read more

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