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Unveiling the Taxonomic Diversity and Unprecedented Biosynthetic Treasure of the Phylum Myxococcota

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Natural products remain vital sources of therapeutics, and the phylum Myxococcota constitutes an especially rich reservoir for them. Based on decades of microbiological efforts, we present 154 new Myxococcota genomes and revise taxonomy quadrupling the number of families and genera.
Amay Ajaykumar Agrawal, Ronald Garcia, Guangyi Chen, Chantal D. Bader, Peter Sullivan, Alexander Popoff, Daniel Krug, Maja Hunter, Sebastian Walesch, Emilia Oueis, Christine Frank, Haowen Zhao, Joachim J. Hug, Sebastian Keller, Pascal Hirsch, Azat Tagirdzhanov, Tatiana Malygina, Mary Victory E. Gutierrez, Alexey Gurevich, Judith Boldt, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann, Ulrich Nübel, Andreas Keller, Olga V. Kalinina, Rolf Müller   +25 more
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Broad‐Spectrum, Cell Envelope‐Active Marinocyclin Antibiotics From a Coral‐Derived Bacterium Are Effective Against Colistin‐Resistant Bacteria

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Marinocyclins, polycationic macrocyclic depsipeptides, were discovered by genome mining from the marine coral‐derived bacterium Aquimarina megaterium. The compounds have broad‐spectrum activity against gram‐positive and gram‐negative ESKAPE bacteria.
Clara Chepkirui, Sandra Silva, Jan Straetener, Chandrashekhar Padhi, Tina Keller‐Costa, Tess Lamer, Laura Reinke, Heike Brötz‐Oesterhelt, Rodrigo Costa, Jörn Piel   +9 more
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P450-mediated dehydrotyrosine formation during WS9326 biosynthesis proceeds via dehydrogenation of a specific acylated dipeptide substrate

Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023
WS9326A is a peptide antibiotic containing a highly unusual N-methyl-E-2-3-dehydrotyrosine (NMet-Dht) residue that is incorporated during peptide assembly on a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS).
Songya Zhang, Lin Zhang, Anja Greule, Julien Tailhades, Edward Marschall, Panward Prasongpholchai, Daniel J. Leng, Jingfan Zhang, Jing Zhu, Joe A. Kaczmarski, Ralf B. Schittenhelm, Oliver Einsle, Colin J. Jackson, Fabrizio Alberti, Andreas Bechthold, Youming Zhang, Manuela Tosin, Tong Si, Max J. Cryle   +18 more
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Supramolecular Degraders: An Emerging Paradigm in Targeted Protein Degradation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Dynamic supramolecular assembly reshapes targeted protein degradation by coordinating modular degrader construction, delivery, functional integration, and intracellular assembly or activation across proteasomal, endosomal–lysosomal, and autophagy–lysosomal pathways.
Kongjun Liu, Xue Yuan, Yan Zhou, Rui Yuan, Shaocheng Xie, Yong Chen, Peiyi Wang, Jianmei Gao, Qihai Gong   +8 more
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Adenylation Domain Engineering Enables Biosynthesis of an Improved Polymyxin Antibiotic

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
To enable incorporation of l‐2‐aminodecanoic acid into polymyxin by fermentation, a single Trp‐to‐Ala substitution is rationally introduced into the adenylation‐domain residue of its nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) and efficiently switches substrate selectivity. The engineered strain produces biologically active Ada‐polymyxin, demonstrating that
Maximilian Müll, Pia Lanvers, Giulia Ravagnan, Kilian Klaus, Olena Nosovska, Ivan Vilotijevic, Jochen Schmid, Hajo Kries   +7 more
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Repurposing FDA‐Approved Drugs to Inhibit Fungal PPTases for Broad‐Spectrum Synergy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Fungal secondary metabolites serve as crucial virulence effectors; however, the potential of their biosynthetic pathways as antifungal targets remains inadequately comprehended. Repurposed FDA‐approved drugs inhibit fungal PPTase (essential for secondary metabolism) in vivo.
Zili Song, Can Zhao, Qiaoling Wang, Hongjiao Zhang, Xiao Liu, Linqi Wang, Michael Bromley, Wen‐Bing Yin   +7 more
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Has new rural pension system reduced the intake of junk food among rural older adults? Evidence from China

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
At present, China has become one of the fastest growing countries in terms of junk food consumption. However, there has been less previous evidence for the effect of endowment insurance on dietary health.
Shi Purun, Zhengxiu Sun, Jiaying Cao, Zhile Li   +3 more
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Sequential Patterning of Photoresponsive Hydrogels Directs Crypt Fission and Reveals the Role of Epithelial Curvature on Fission Symmetry

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Deterministic crypt fission is achieved in intestinal organoids using photopatternable hydrogels with spatiotemporal control. Daughter‐crypt symmetry is shown to depend on parent‐crypt geometry and epithelial curvature, while myosin‐dependent mechanosensing links tissue shape to regenerative outcomes.
Delaney L. McNally, Kaustav Bera, Nolan R. Petrich, Alex Khang, Marilyne Coulombe, David Castillo‐Azofeifa, Ophir D. Klein, Peter J. Dempsey, Kristi S. Anseth   +8 more
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Similarity‐Enhanced Representation Learning of Non‐Canonical Amino Acids for Therapeutic Peptide Modeling

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Non‐canonical amino acids (ncAAs) enhance peptide therapeutics but remain difficult to model computationally. SinCAA, a similarity‐enhanced pretraining framework, jointly optimizes contrastive learning guided by a novel conformational similarity metric with masked node reconstruction, capturing both functional relationships and chemical identity of ...
Chencheng Xu, Lesong Wei, Jianmin Wang, Yuanpeng Xiong, Ruochi Zhang, Yu Wang, Chao Zha, Qiangcheng Zeng, Xin Gao   +8 more
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Ultrasound‐Activated Nanoinhibitors Blocking the Chemo‐Immune Checkpoint to Overcome Chemotherapy‐Induced Immune Resistance

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A sono‐responsive chemo‐immune checkpoint nanoinhibitor (Sono‐TT8) co‐delivering TPZ chemotherapy and siXkr8 simultaneously kills tumor cells and blocks PS externalization, reversing chemotherapy‐induced immunosuppression and enhancing antitumor immunity. ABSTRACT Breast cancer features an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment following chemotherapy
Yunfan Liu, Chier Du, Leilei Zhu, Hongjin An, Shengzhe Hou, Yi Lan, Xuemei Tang, Min Xu, Peng Luo, Hua Teng, Hao Yang, Xun Guo, Jianli Ren, Zhiyi Zhou   +13 more
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