Publications

2024
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 Hubrich, F., Kandy, S. K., Chepkirui, C., Padhi, C., Mordhorst, S., Moosmann, P., Zhu, T., Gugger, M., Chekan, J. R.# and Piel, J.# (2024) Ribosomal peptides with polycyclic isoprenoid moieties. Chem. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2024.07.026)

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 Smith, A. B., and Chekan, J. R. (2024) Targeted peptide modification using an engineered bacterial N-glycosyltransferase. ACS Catal. (doi: 10.1021/acscatal.4c01958)

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 Kriger, D.*, Pasquale, M. A.*, Ampolini, B. G.*, and Chekan, J. R. (2024) Mining raw plant transcriptomic data for new cyclopeptide alkaloids. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 20, 1548–1559 (doi: 10.3762/bjoc.20.138)

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32. Pierre, H. C., Amrine, C. S. M., Doyle, M. G., Salvi, A., Raja, H. A., Chekan, J. R., Huntsman, A. C., Fuchs, J. R., Liu, K., Burdette, J. E., Pearce, C. J., and Oberlies, N. H. (2024) Verticillins: fungal epipolythiodioxopiperazine alkaloids with chemotherapeutic potential. Nat. Prod. Rep. (doi: 10.1039/d3np00068k)
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 Chekan, J. R.#, Mydy, L. S., Pasquale, M. A., and Kersten, R. D.# (2024) Plant peptides – redefining an area of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides. Nat. Prod. Rep. (doi: 10.1039/D3NP00042G)

2023
31. Gallardo, I. A., Todd, D. A., Lima, S. T., Chekan, J. R., Chiu, N. H., and Taylor, E. W. (2023) SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Targets Host Selenoproteins and Glutathione Biosynthesis for Knockdown via Proteolysis, Potentially Disrupting the Thioredoxin and Glutaredoxin Redox Cycles. Antioxidants. 12, 559 (doi: 10.3390/antiox12030559)
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 Lima, S. T.*, Ampolini, B. G.*, Underwood, E. B.*, Graf, T. N., Earp, C. E., Khedi, I. C., Pasquale, M. A., and Chekan, J. R. (2023) A Widely Distributed Biosynthetic Cassette Is Responsible for Diverse Plant Side Chain Cross-Linked Cyclopeptides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed Engl. (doi: 10.1002/anie.202218082)

 

2022
29. Smith, A. B., and Chekan, J. R. (2022) Engineering yeast for industrial-level production of the antimalarial drug artemisinin (Spotlight). Trends Biotechnol.  (doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2022.12.007)
28. Kandy, S. K., and Chekan, J. R. (2022) Biosynthesis of the Plant-Produced Toxin Strychnine Elucidated (Highlight). Angew. Chem. Int. Ed Engl. 61, e202212301 (doi: 10.1002/anie.202212301)
27. Chen, P. Y.-T., Adak, S., Chekan, J. R., Liscombe, D. K., Miyanaga, A., Bernhardt, P., Diethelm, S., Fielding, E. N., George, J. H., Miles, Z. D., Murray, L. A. M., Steele, T. S., Winter, J. M., Noel, J. P., and Moore, B. S. (2022) Structural Basis of Stereospecific Vanadium-Dependent Haloperoxidase Family Enzymes in Napyradiomycin Biosynthesis. Biochemistry. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00338)
26. Lima, S. T., Fallon, T. R., Cordoza, J. L., Chekan, J. R., Delbaje, E., Hopiavuori, A. R., Alvarenga, D. O., Wood, S. M., Luhavaya, H., Baumgartner, J. T., Dörr, F. A., Etchegaray, A., Pinto, E., McKinnie, S. M. K., Fiore, M. F., and Moore, B. S. (2022) Biosynthesis of Guanitoxin Enables Global Environmental Detection in Freshwater Cyanobacteria. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144, 9372–9379 (doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c01424)
25. Steele, T. S., Brunson, J. K., Maeno, Y., Terada, R., Allen, A. E., Yotsu-Yamashita, M., Chekan, J. R.#, and Moore, B. S.# (2022) Domoic acid biosynthesis in the red alga Chondria armata suggests a complex evolutionary history for toxin production. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 119, e2117407119 (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2117407119)

2021
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 Bauman, K. D., Butler, K. S., Moore, B. S.#, and Chekan, J. R.# (2021) Genome mining methods to discover bioactive natural products. Nat. Prod. Rep. (doi: 10.1039/d1np00032b)
23. Griffin, S. L., Chekan, J. R., Lira, J. M., Robinson, A. E., Yerkes, C. N., Siehl, D. L., Wright, T. R., Nair, S. K., and Cicchillo, R. M. (2021) Characterization of a Glyphosate-Tolerant Enzyme from Streptomyces svecius: A Distinct Class of 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate Synthases. J. Agric. Food Chem. 69, 5096–5104 (doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c00439)

2020
22. Chekan, J. R., Fallon, T. R., and Moore, B. S. (2020) Biosynthesis of marine toxins. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 59, 119–129 (doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.06.009)
21. Chekan, J. R., McKinnie, S. M. K., Noel, J. P., and Moore, B. S. (2020) Algal neurotoxin biosynthesis repurposes the terpene cyclase structural fold into an N -prenyltransferase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (doi:10.1073/pnas.2001325117)
20. Fiore, M. F., de Lima, S. T., Carmichael, W. W., McKinnie, S. M. K., Chekan, J. R., and Moore, B. S. (2020) Guanitoxin, re-naming a cyanobacterial organophosphate toxin. Harmful Algae. 92, 101737 (doi:10.1016/j.hal.2019.101737)

2019
19. Chekan, J. R., Ongpipattanakul, C., and Nair, S. K. (2019) Steric complementarity directs sequence promiscuous leader binding in RiPP biosynthesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 116, 24049–24055 (doi:10.1073/pnas.1908364116)
18. Chekan, J. R., Lee, G. Y., El Gamal, A., Purdy, T. N., Houk, K. N., and Moore, B. S. (2019) Bacterial tetrabromopyrrole debrominase shares a reductive dehalogenation strategy with human thyroid deiodinase. Biochemistry. 58, 5329–5338 (doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00318)
17. Chekan, J. R.*, Ongpipattanakul, C.*, Wright, T. R., Zhang, B., Bollinger, J. M., Rajakovich, L. J., Krebs, C., Cicchillo, R. M., and Nair, S. K. (2019) Molecular basis for enantioselective herbicide degradation imparted by aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenases in transgenic plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 116, 13299–13304 (doi:10.1073/pnas.1900711116)
16. Chekan, J. R., McKinnie, S. M. K., Moore, M. L., Poplawski, S. G., Michael, T. P., and Moore, B. S. (2019) Scalable biosynthesis of the seaweed neurochemical, kainic acid. Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 58, 8454–8457 (doi:10.1002/anie.201902910)
15. Luhavaya, H., Sigrist, R., Chekan, J. R., McKinnie, S. M. K., and Moore, B. S. (2019) Biosynthesis of L-4-chlorokynurenine, an antidepressant prodrug and a non-proteinogenic amino acid found in lipopeptide antibiotics. Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 58, 8394–8399 (doi:10.1002/anie.201901571)

2018
14. Chekan, J. R., and Moore, B. S. (2018) Preparation and characterization of tetrabromopyrrole debrominase from marine proteobacteria. Methods Enzymol. 605, 253–65 (doi:10.1016/bs.mie.2018.01.031)
13. Brunson, J. K.*, McKinnie, S. M. K.*, Chekan, J. R., McCrow, J. P., Miles, Z. D., Bertrand, E. M., Bielinski, V. A., Luhavaya, H., Oborník, M., Smith, G. J., Hutchins, D. A., Allen, A. E., and Moore, B. S. (2018) Biosynthesis of the neurotoxin domoic acid in a bloom-forming diatom. Science. 361, 1356–8 (doi:10.1126/science.aau0382)
12. Chekan, J. R., and Moore, B. S. (2018) Biosynthesis of the antibiotic bicyclomycin in soil and pathogenic bacteria (Viewpoint). Biochemistry. 57, 897–898 (doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01204)

2017
11. Chekan, J. R., Estrada, P., Covello, P. S., and Nair, S. K. (2017) Characterization of the macrocyclase involved in the biosynthesis of RiPP cyclic peptides in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 114, 6551–6556 (doi:10.1073/pnas.1620499114)
10. Repka, L. M.*, Chekan, J. R.*, Nair, S. K., and van der Donk, W. A. (2017) Mechanistic Understanding of Lanthipeptide Biosynthetic Enzymes. Chem. Rev. 117, 5457–5520 (doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00591)
9. Olivares, P.*, Ulrich, E. C.*, Chekan, J. R.*, van der Donk, W. A., and Nair, S. K. (2017) Characterization of Two Late-Stage Enzymes Involved in Fosfomycin Biosynthesis in Pseudomonads. ACS Chem. Biol. 12, 456–463 (doi:10.1021/acschembio.6b00939)

2016
8. Chekan, J. R., Koos, J. D., Zong, C., Maksimov, M. O., Link, A. J., and Nair, S. K. (2016) Structure of the lasso peptide isopeptidase identifies a topology for processing threaded substrates. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 16452–16458 (doi:10.1021/jacs.6b10389)
7. Chekan, J. R.*, Cogan, D. P.*, and Nair, S. K. (2016) Molecular basis for resistance against phosphonate antibiotics and herbicides. Med. Chem. Commun. 7, 28–36 (doi:10.1039/C5MD00351B)

2015
6. Peck, S. C., Chekan, J. R., Ulrich, E. C., Nair, S. K., and van der Donk, W. A. (2015) A common late-stage intermediate in catalysis by 2-hydroxyethyl-phosphonate dioxygenase and methylphosphonate synthase. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 3217–20 (doi:10.1021/jacs.5b00282)

2014
5. Chekan, J. R.*, Kwon, I. H.*, Agarwal, V.*, Dodd, D., Revindran, V., Mackie, R. I., Cann, I., and Nair, S. K. (2014) Structural and biochemical basis for mannan utilization by Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus strain ATCC BAA-17. J. Biol. Chem. 289, 34965–77 (doi:10.1074/jbc.M114.579904)
4. Zhang, M.*, Chekan, J. R.*, Dodd, D.*, Hong, P.-Y., Radlinski, L., Revindran, V., Nair, S. K., Mackie, R. I., and Cann, I. (2014) Xylan utilization in human gut commensal bacteria is orchestrated by unique modular organization of polysaccharide-degrading enzymes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 111, E3708–17 (doi:10.1073/pnas.1406156111)
3. Dunbar, K. L.*, Chekan, J. R.*, Cox, C. L., Burkhart, B. J., Nair, S. K., and Mitchell, D. A. (2014) Discovery of a new ATP-binding motif involved in peptidic azoline biosynthesis. Nat. Chem. Biol. 10, 823–9 (doi:10.1038/nchembio.1608)
2. Hung, J. E., Fogle, E. J., Garg, N., Chekan, J. R., Nair, S. K., and van der Donk, W. A. (2014) Chemical rescue and inhibition studies to determine the role of Arg301 in phosphite dehydrogenase. PLoS One. 9, e87134 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087134)
1. Agarwal, V., Peck, S. C., Chen, J.-H., Borisova, S. A., Chekan, J. R., van der Donk, W. A., and Nair, S. K. (2014) Structure and function of phosphonoacetaldehyde dehydrogenase: the missing link in phosphonoacetate formation. Chem. Biol. 21, 125–35 (doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2013.11.006)