Fungi that infect insects: altering host behavior and beyond

Y Shang, P Feng, C Wang - PLoS pathogens, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Approximately 1,000 species of the fungal phyla Microsporidia, Chytridiomycota,
Entomophthoromycota (order: Entomophthorales), Basidiomycota, and Ascomycota are …

Antifungal activity of microbial secondary metabolites

JJ Coleman, S Ghosh, I Okoli, E Mylonakis - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Secondary metabolites are well known for their ability to impede other microorganisms.
Reanalysis of a screen of natural products using the Caenorhabditis elegans-Candida …

Fungal endophytes: A potential source of antibacterial compounds

SK Deshmukh, L Dufossé, H Chhipa, S Saxena… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance is becoming a burning issue due to the frequent use of antibiotics for
curing common bacterial infections, indicating that we are running out of effective antibiotics …

Managing the plant microbiome for biocontrol fungi: examples from Hypocreales

RM Kepler, JE Maul, SA Rehner - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Numerous species throughout Hypocreales are used for the biological control of
plant diseases and pests.•Genome data is available for many species to understand …

Bioactive metabolites from macrofungi: ethnopharmacology, biological activities and chemistry

DD De Silva, S Rapior, E Sudarman, M Stadler, J Xu… - Fungal Diversity, 2013 - Springer
Exploration of natural sources for novel bioactive compounds has been an emerging field of
medicine over the past decades, providing drugs or lead compounds of considerable …

Tremorgenic and neurotoxic paspaline-derived indole-diterpenes: biosynthetic diversity, threats and applications

L Kozák, Z Szilágyi, L Tóth, I Pócsi, I Molnár - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
Indole-diterpenes (IDTs) such as the aflatrems, janthitrems, lolitrems, paspalitrems,
penitrems, shearinines, sulpinines, and terpendoles are biogenetically related but …

Potentials of endophytic fungi in the biosynthesis of versatile secondary metabolites and enzymes

HB Slama, A Chenari Bouket, FN Alenezi… - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
World population growth and modernization have engendered multiple environmental
problems: the propagation of humans and crop diseases and the development of multi-drug …

Filamentous fungi from extreme environments as a promising source of novel bioactive secondary metabolites

R Chávez, F Fierro, RO García-Rico… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Natural product search is undergoing resurgence upon the discovery of a huge previously
unknown potential for secondary metabolite (SM) production hidden in microbial genomes …

Endophytic fungi as a source of antiviral compounds–a review

ÍCS Lacerda, JC Polonio, HC Golias - Chemistry & Biodiversity, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Endophytic fungi are a rich source of secondary metabolites. The interactions between
endophytes and their hosts lead to the production of several bioactive substances grouped …

High-resolution MS, MS/MS, and UV database of fungal secondary metabolites as a dereplication protocol for bioactive natural products

T El-Elimat, M Figueroa, BM Ehrmann… - Journal of natural …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A major problem in the discovery of new biologically active compounds from natural
products is the reisolation of known compounds. Such reisolations waste time and …