Hello! Check out our new publication led by @nadjacech.bsky.social and based on a collaborative effort!

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

This could be a really helpful resource:

A Review from Sanath Kandy, Michael Pasquale, and Jonathan Chekan highlights newly discovered enzymes responsible for aromatic side-chain crosslinking in ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are excited to see our review published! In it, we explore the diversity of enzymatic strategies for installing aromatic side chain cross-links in RiPPs. If you like interesting chemistry and new enzyme reactions, be sure to check it out!

Nice to see this well written review of the latest developments in aromatic side-chain cross-linking in RiPPs from @chekanlab.bsky.social out in the wild #chembio #chemsky

Strong showing of @scrippsocean.bsky.social and @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social alums at the first full day of SIMB #NP2025 meeting @chekanlab.bsky.social
@eustaquiolab.bsky.social Neha Garg Kaity Ryan

Happy Holidays from the Chekan Lab!

Just in time for the holidays

Convergent Evolution of the Antimycobacterial Lasso Peptide Triculamin
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@amerrild.bsky.social @tizianasvenningsen.bsky.social @thomastorring.bsky.social

A Christmas present to all of the lasso peptide connoisseurs out there. The next chapter in our work is on triculamin is ready on bioRxiv. Great work by two incredibly talented graduate students @amerrild.bsky.social and @tizianasvenningsen.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in genome mining for natural product discovery? Check out our recent paper in collaboration with the Linington lab pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

📢🚨🔬 Heads up! The Ader Lab at @uncg.bsky.social is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 📢🚨🔬

Apply at forms.gle/VcsspZYxstStKrGt7 by Jan 1, 2025 for full consideration!

Check out what we're about: nickaderlab.com

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Excited to share our work on the new plant copper enzymes, BpCs! We offer mechanistic insights and structural recommendations for advancing BpC research. So many Cu enzymes have been waiting to be discovered! 🌿🧬🧪 Sharing the author’s link here:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1jzvn9CpcY...

🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Plant Natural Products Starter Pack: covering discovery, biosynthesis, regulation, and more.

go.bsky.app/9a7jtxR

Please nominate and self-nominate.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD is looking for an assistant prof in marine natural products / marine biotech apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04101 #naturalproducts

New pre-print from the group 🥳 We use targeted genome mining to show that the plant pathogen Rhodococcus fascians makes the antibiotic lydiamycin. The BGC information then informed the discovery of multiple key features relating to the molecule 1/4
#biosynthesis
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Our Taxol pathway preprint!
We developed a systematic strategy to activate and identify gene sets in plants. Used it to identify 8 genes in the Taxol pathway, enabling a 20-gene biosynthesis of a Taxol precursor.
Biggest surprise: a new protein that helps our oxidases produce the correct product

So sorry to hear that it has been a rough few weeks!

An alternative to BioRender:
see a collection of icons at bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Reminder than my awesome department, UNC Greensboro Biology, is hiring for F25! Please share!

Apply by Friday, November 1st, for full consideration.

I thought I heard that was their last one, but I hope I am wrong.

I’m not entirely sure how these starter packs work…
but I’ve created one for microbial natural products - hopefully it helps us connect! go.bsky.app/72NeGsT