Marine drugs: Biology, pipelines, current and future prospects for production

N Papon, BR Copp, V Courdavault - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
The marine environment is a huge reservoir of biodiversity and represents an excellent
source of chemical compounds, some of which have large economical values. In the urgent …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolomics-and systems-biology-guided discovery of metabolite lead compounds and druggable targets

A Palermo - Drug Discovery Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Metabolomics and systems biology at large can accelerate lead compound
discovery from natural sources.•Systems-level interpretation of omics data aids in the …

Identification of the lipodepsipeptide selethramide encoded in a giant nonribosomal peptide synthetase from a Burkholderia bacterium

SB Romanowski, S Lee, S Kunakom… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Bacterial natural products have found many important industrial applications. Yet traditional
discovery pipelines often prioritize individual natural product families despite the presence …

Structure elucidation of secondary metabolites: Current frontiers and lingering pitfalls

M DiBello, AR Healy, H Nikolayevskiy… - Accounts of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Analytical methods allow for the structure determination of submilligram
quantities of complex secondary metabolites. This has been driven in large part by …

Genome-guided discovery of the first myxobacterial biarylitide myxarylin reveals distinct C–N biaryl crosslinking in RiPP biosynthesis

JJ Hug, NA Frank, C Walt, P Šenica, F Panter, R Müller - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a
structurally diverse group of natural products. They feature a wide range of intriguing post …

Interplay of emerging and established technologies drives innovation in natural product antibiotic discovery

CD Bader, AL Nichols, D Yang, B Shen - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
A continued rise of antibiotic resistance and shortages of effective antibiotics necessitate the
discovery and development of new antibiotics with novel modes of action (MoAs) against …

Recent advances in discovery and biosynthesis of natural products from myxobacteria: an overview from 2017 to 2023

CY Wang, JQ Hu, DG Wang, YZ Li, C Wu - Natural Product Reports, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2017.01 to 2023.11 Natural products biosynthesized by myxobacteria are
appealing due to their sophisticated chemical skeletons, remarkable biological activities …

Accessing hidden microbial biosynthetic potential from underexplored sources for novel drug discovery

L Li - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial natural products and their structural analogues have widely used as
pharmaceutical agents, especially for infectious diseases and cancer. Despite this success …

Natural products in antibiotic development: is the success story over?

FA Bernal, P Hammann, F Kloss - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural product (NP)-based antibiotics have been exploited for more than eighty years and
continue saving uncountable lives every year. However, antimicrobial R&D is inadequate to …

[HTML][HTML] Next-generation synthetic biology approaches for the accelerated discovery of microbial natural products

L Li - Engineering Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial natural products (NPs) and their derivates have been widely used in health care
and agriculture during the past few decades. Although large-scale bacterial or fungal (meta) …