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ReviewThe Journal of antibiotics2026

Aminoacyl-tRNA-dependent enzymes in natural product biosynthesis: structure-function insights.

Yu Zheng, Yanhui Zhao, Shunji Takahashi

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Review in The Journal of antibiotics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yu ZhengRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama, Japan. yu.zheng@riken.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1297-8933
Yanhui ZhaoRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama, Japan.
Shunji TakahashiRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama, Japan. shunjitaka@riken.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1684-9298

Funding

MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI for Scientific Research (A) 20H00416MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI for Transformative Research Area (A) 23H04564
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aminoacyl-tRNAs, charged by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases with cognate amino acids, are essential for protein synthesis in primary metabolism. Beyond this canonical role, increasing evidence highlights their involvement in natural product biosynthesis. In this review, we first describe the biosynthesis of the aminoacyl nucleoside sulfamate ascamycin from Streptomyces sp. 80H647, highlighting the discovery of the alanyl-tRNA synthetase-like enzyme AcmF through an AI-driven "Forecasting Biosynthesis" approach. Leveraging recent advances in AlphaFold 3, we constructed complex models of a broadened repertoire of aminoacyl-tRNA-dependent enzymes to provide preliminary structure-function insights. These include the isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase-like enzyme SbzA, Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferase-fold transferases, cyclodipeptide synthase family enzymes, and lantibiotic dehydratase-like peptide aminoacyl-tRNA ligases. The catalytic mechanisms of these aminoacyl-tRNA-dependent enzymes are summarized in detail in this review.

Indexed as

Amino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesBiological ProductsRNA, Transfer, Amino AcylStreptomycesStructure-Activity RelationshipAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesBiological ProductsRNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl

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PMID41571981
PMCPMC12945691

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