Metabolomics and genomics in natural products research: complementary tools for targeting new chemical entities

LK Caesar, R Montaser, NP Keller… - Natural product reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2021 Organisms in nature have evolved into proficient synthetic chemists,
utilizing specialized enzymatic machinery to biosynthesize an inspiring diversity of …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal–fungal co-culture: a primer for generating chemical diversity

SL Knowles, HA Raja, CD Roberts… - Natural Product …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2002 to 2020 In their natural environment, fungi must compete for resources. It
has been hypothesized that this competition likely induces the biosynthesis of secondary …

The Natural Products Atlas 2.0: a database of microbially-derived natural products

JA van Santen, EF Poynton, D Iskakova… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Within the natural products field there is an increasing emphasis on the study of compounds
from microbial sources. This has been fuelled by interest in the central role that …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal secondary metabolites in food and pharmaceuticals in the era of multi-omics

A Shankar, KK Sharma - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2022 - Springer
Fungi produce several bioactive metabolites, pigments, dyes, antioxidants, polysaccharides,
and industrial enzymes. Fungal products are also the primary sources of functional food and …

[HTML][HTML] Future directions for the discovery of natural product-derived immunomodulating drugs: an IUPHAR positional review

CL Wainwright, MM Teixeira, DL Adelson… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drug discovery from natural sources is going through a renaissance, having spent many
decades in the shadow of synthetic molecule drug discovery, despite the fact that natural …

[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 …

Correlative metabologenomics of 110 fungi reveals metabolite–gene cluster pairs

LK Caesar, FA Butun, MT Robey, NJ Ayon… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural products research increasingly applies-omics technologies to guide molecular
discovery. While the combined analysis of genomic and metabolomic datasets has proved …

[HTML][HTML] Unlocking the magic in mycelium: Using synthetic biology to optimize filamentous fungi for biomanufacturing and sustainability

C Jo, J Zhang, JM Tam, GM Church, AS Khalil… - Materials Today Bio, 2023 - Elsevier
Filamentous fungi drive carbon and nutrient cycling across our global ecosystems, through
its interactions with growing and decaying flora and their constituent microbiomes. The …