Natural products as anticancer agents: current status and future perspectives

A Naeem, P Hu, M Yang, J Zhang, Y Liu, W Zhu… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Natural products have been an invaluable and useful source of anticancer agents over the
years. Several compounds have been synthesized from natural products by modifying their …

[HTML][HTML] Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities

AG Atanasov, SB Zotchev, VM Dirsch… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Natural products and their structural analogues have historically made a major contribution
to pharmacotherapy, especially for cancer and infectious diseases. Nevertheless, natural …

Natural product drug discovery in the artificial intelligence era

FI Saldívar-González, VD Aldas-Bulos… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural products (NPs) are primarily recognized as privileged structures to interact with
protein drug targets. Their unique characteristics and structural diversity continue to marvel …

NPClassifier: a deep neural network-based structural classification tool for natural products

HW Kim, M Wang, CA Leber, LF Nothias… - Journal of Natural …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Computational approaches such as genome and metabolome mining are becoming
essential to natural products (NPs) research. Consequently, a need exists for an automated …

Counting on natural products for drug design

T Rodrigues, D Reker, P Schneider, G Schneider - Nature chemistry, 2016 - nature.com
Natural products and their molecular frameworks have a long tradition as valuable starting
points for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. Recently, there has been a revitalization …

The re-emergence of natural products for drug discovery in the genomics era

AL Harvey, RA Edrada-Ebel, RJ Quinn - Nature reviews drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Natural products have been a rich source of compounds for drug discovery. However, their
use has diminished in the past two decades, in part because of technical barriers to …

State-of-the-art biocatalysis

JB Pyser, S Chakrabarty, EO Romero… - ACS central …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The use of enzyme-mediated reactions has transcended ancient food production to the
laboratory synthesis of complex molecules. This evolution has been accelerated by …

Target identification and mechanism of action in chemical biology and drug discovery

M Schenone, V Dančík, BK Wagner… - Nature chemical …, 2013 - nature.com
Target-identification and mechanism-of-action studies have important roles in small-
molecule probe and drug discovery. Biological and technological advances have resulted in …

Natural product derived privileged scaffolds in drug discovery

EK Davison, MA Brimble - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2019 - Elsevier
The biological activity and structural diversity of natural products are unsurpassed by any
available synthetic screening libraries. As such, these privileged scaffolds serve as …

Iron-catalyzed hydrobenzylation: stereoselective synthesis of (−)-eugenial C

X Gan, S Kotesova, A Castanedo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metal-hydride hydrogen atom transfer (MHAT) has emerged as a useful tool to form
quaternary carbons from alkenes via hydrofunctionalization. Methods to date that cross …