HEx: A heterologous expression platform for the discovery of fungal natural products

CJB Harvey, M Tang, U Schlecht, J Horecka… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
For decades, fungi have been a source of US Food and Drug Administration–approved
natural products such as penicillin, cyclosporine, and the statins. Recent breakthroughs in …

Reconstructing fungal natural product biosynthetic pathways

CM Lazarus, K Williams, AM Bailey - Natural product reports, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2014 Large scale fungal genome sequencing has revealed a multitude of
potential natural product biosynthetic pathways that remain uncharted. Here we describe …

Deciphering chemical logic of fungal natural product biosynthesis through heterologous expression and genome mining

CY Chiang, M Ohashi, Y Tang - Natural product reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2022 Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene
clusters (BGCs) has become a widely used tool for genome mining of cryptic pathways …

[PDF][PDF] First heterologous reconstruction of a complete functional fungal biosynthetic multigene cluster

MN Heneghan, AA Yakasai, LM Halo, Z Song… - …, 2010 - academia.edu
Fungal natural products include antibiotics such as the penicillins, antirejection drugs such
as cyclosporins and cholesterollowering drugs such as the statins. High productivity of these …

Unlocking fungal cryptic natural products

YM Chiang, KH Lee, JF Sanchez… - Natural product …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent published sequencing of fungal genomes has revealed that these microorganisms
have a surprisingly large number of secondary metabolite pathways that can serve as …

[HTML][HTML] Developing fungal heterologous expression platforms to explore and improve the production of natural products from fungal biodiversity

X Meng, Y Fang, M Ding, Y Zhang, K Jia, Z Li… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural products from fungi represent an important source of biologically active metabolites
notably for therapeutic agent development. Genome sequencing revealed that the number …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic biology tools for bioprospecting of natural products in eukaryotes

SE Unkles, V Valiante, DJ Mattern, AA Brakhage - Chemistry & biology, 2014 - cell.com
Filamentous fungi have the capacity to produce a battery of natural products of often
unknown function, synthesized by complex metabolic pathways. Unfortunately, most of these …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for engineering natural product biosynthesis in fungi

E Skellam - Trends in Biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
Fungi are a prolific source of bioactive compounds, some of which have been developed as
essential medicines and life-enhancing drugs. Genome sequencing has revealed that fungi …

Comprehensive curation and analysis of fungal biosynthetic gene clusters of published natural products

YF Li, KJS Tsai, CJB Harvey, JJ Li, BE Ary… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Microorganisms produce a wide range of natural products (NPs) with clinically and
agriculturally relevant biological activities. In bacteria and fungi, genes encoding successive …

Biologically active secondary metabolites from the fungi

GF Bills, JB Gloer - Microbiology spectrum, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Many Fungi have a well-developed secondary metabolism. The diversity of fungal species
and the diversification of biosynthetic gene clusters underscores a nearly limitless potential …