The confluence of big data and evolutionary genome mining for the discovery of natural products

MG Chevrette, A Gavrilidou, S Mantri… - Natural product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers literature between 2003–2021 The development and application of
genome mining tools has given rise to ever-growing genetic and chemical databases and …

Streptomyces cell-free systems for natural product discovery and engineering

SJ Moore, HE Lai, J Li, PS Freemont - Natural product reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Streptomyces bacteria are a major microbial source of natural products, which are encoded
within so-called biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). This highlight discusses the emergence …

Discovery of unusual dimeric piperazyl cyclopeptides encoded by a Lentzea flaviverrucosa DSM 44664 biosynthetic supercluster

C Li, Y Hu, X Wu, SD Stumpf, Y Qi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Rare actinomycetes represent an underexploited source of new bioactive compounds. Here,
we report the use of a targeted metabologenomic approach to identify piperazyl compounds …

Comparative metabologenomics analysis of polar actinomycetes

S Soldatou, GH Eldjárn, A Ramsay, JJJ Van Der Hooft… - Marine drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biosynthetic and chemical datasets are the two major pillars for microbial drug discovery in
the omics era. Despite the advancement of analysis tools and platforms for multi-strain …

Exploring a general multi-pronged activation strategy for natural product discovery in Actinomycetes

DWP Tay, LL Tan, E Heng, N Zulkarnain… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural products possess significant therapeutic potential but remain underutilized despite
advances in genomics and bioinformatics. While there are approaches to activate and …

Myxadazoles, Myxobacterium‐Derived Isoxazole–Benzimidazole Hybrids with Cardiovascular Activities

Y Li, L Zhuo, X Li, Y Zhu, S Wu, T Shen… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is a continuous need for novel microbial natural products to fill the drying‐up drug
development pipeline. Herein, we report myxadazoles from Myxococcus sp. SDU36, a family …

The design-build-test-learn cycle for metabolic engineering of streptomycetes

CM Whitford, P Cruz-Morales, JD Keasling… - Essays in …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Streptomycetes are producers of a wide range of specialized metabolites of great medicinal
and industrial importance, such as antibiotics, antifungals, or pesticides. Having been the …

Eliciting the silent lucensomycin biosynthetic pathway in Streptomyces cyanogenus S136 via manipulation of the global regulatory gene adpA

O Yushchuk, I Ostash, E Mösker, I Vlasiuk, M Deneka… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Actinobacteria are among the most prolific sources of medically and agriculturally important
compounds, derived from their biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) for specialized …

Constructing a myxobacterial natural product database to facilitate NMR-based metabolomics bioprospecting of myxobacteria

DG Wang, CY Wang, JQ Hu, JJ Wang, WC Liu… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Myxobacteria are fascinating prokaryotes featuring a potent capacity for producing a wealth
of bioactive molecules with intricate chemical topology as well as intriguing enzymology …

The virulome of Streptomyces scabiei in response to cello-oligosaccharide elicitors

B Deflandre, N Stulanovic, S Planckaert… - Microbial …, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
The development of spots or lesions symptomatic of common scab on root and tuber crops is
caused by few pathogenic Streptomyces with Streptomyces scabiei 87–22 as the model …