Lasso Peptide Engineering
Among natural products, lasso peptides are unique in that they are highly stable and easily engineerable. These features make lasso peptides ideal candidates as molecular scaffolds for the development of therapeutic drugs. Recent advances in genomics, bioinformatics, and chemical analytics have greatly facilitated the discovery of lasso peptides in nature. As the number of lasso peptide biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) continues to increase, the need for efficient heterologous expression and structural analysis becomes increasingly pressing. In this context, a promising approach has been to use a combination of site-selective chemical modification of the coding sequences of the BGC and heterologous