
Pedro Leão
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Check our latest work in Nature Communications where mechanistic details of a key catabolic C-glycoside enzyme were revealed. Thanks to ALL authors in particular André Taborda & Tomás Frazão 👏👏👏 nature.com/articles/s4146…



Discovery of Terminal Oxazole-Bearing Natural Products by a Targeted Metabologenomic Approach (Dong-Chan Oh and co-workers) #openaccess #AngewandteVIP Seoul National University onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…


We are excited to finally publish the unprecedented biosynthetic origins of enediyne natural products: iodinated polyynes! This transformative discovery is a huge milestone for these clinical antitumor antibiotics. Edward Kalkreuter chun gui Nature Chemical Biology nature.com/articles/s4158…


A big one out from our lab - combining synthesis and enzymology to look in detail into BVMO product selectivity! Very proud of team TAMGulderLab_TechBioDD with Manuel Einsiedler in the lead. Work done Antibiotikaforschung (inaktiv) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung –inaktiv TU Dresden @TUD_Science J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Thrilled to update that our phenazine halogenase manuscript is accepted and online at Org Lett J Org Chem/Org Lett! Huge congrats to Jackson Baumgartner for spearheading this fun and colorful story - check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…


Join us for an online lecture by Paulo Oliveira from BlueBio4Future team "Synthetic Biology & Marine Biotechnology for a Blue Bioeconomy" as part of the "What is the Future of Marine Biotechnology?" exhibition at CMIA Vila do Conde 🗓️Sept 16th 🕝 14h30 European Research Executive Agency CIIMAR-UP

Very excited to share that one of the major projects from my postdoc in the wonderful Piel Lab is out now Chem. An amazing collaboration with the Chekan Lab and Sanath Kandy where we characterized RiPPs with polycyclic isoprene moieties🎉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1jjdi8jWHELG…



Excited to share an awesome collab between the Narayan Lab @ UMich ang the gomes group! Check out our preprint on CATNIP, using ML to help chemists identify a compatible biocatalyst for small molecule synthesis! Huge thanks to Daniil Boiko for making it all possible!🎉chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

We developed a versatile genome mining strategy to explore the biosynthetic space of the atropopeptides - a fascinating family of peptides with complex 3D shapes! Now out in Chemical Science #peptides #biosynthesis #genomemining pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…



The CMIA Vila do Conde is hosting the online talk “Natural Products: Discovery, Isolation, and Biotechnological Applications of Nature's Most Valuable Secrets” by CIIMAR-UP researcher Sara Freitas. 🗓️ November 22 🕐 14h 👉 forms.gle/UP3aAJZQvpNdEV… BlueBio4Future #CIIMARcmias


🌟 Exciting News! Our review on Fatty acyl-AMP ligases (FAALs) in bacterial natural product biosynthesis has just been published in Natural Product Reports, Royal Society of Chemistry! 🎉 Special thanks to Pedro Leão BlueBio4Future CIIMAR-UP Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar UP pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Our latest work is out in Nature Chemical Biology Nature Chemical Biology and featured by Penn Engineering: We discovered new fungal RiPPs, aspergimycins, from Aspergillus flavus, with promising anti-leukemia activity via lipid modification. blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineers…