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 …

Biosynthesis of fungal terpenoids

P Luo, JH Huang, JM Lv, GQ Wang, D Hu… - Natural Product …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to August 2023Terpenoids, which are widely distributed in animals, plants, and
microorganisms, are a large group of natural products with diverse structures and various …

Tandem intermolecular [4+ 2] cycloadditions are catalysed by glycosylated enzymes for natural product biosynthesis

J Liu, J Lu, C Zhang, Q Zhou, CS Jamieson… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Tandem Diels–Alder reactions are frequently used in the construction of polycyclic
ring systems in complex organic compounds. Unlike the many Diels− Alderases (DAases) …

Secondary metabolite biosynthetic diversity in the fungal family Hypoxylaceae and Xylaria hypoxylon

E Kuhnert, JC Navarro-Muñoz, K Becker… - Studies in …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
To date little is known about the genetic background that drives the production and
diversification of secondary metabolites in the Hypoxylaceae. With the recent availability of …

Total synthesis and computational investigations of sesquiterpene-tropolones ameliorate stereochemical inconsistencies and resolve an ambiguous biosynthetic …

CY Bemis, CN Ungarean, AS Shved… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The sesquiterpene-tropolones belong to a distinctive structural class of meroterpene natural
products with impressive biological activities, including anticancer, antifungal, antimalarial …

Biosynthesis of cosmosporasides reveals the assembly line for fungal hybrid terpenoid saccharides

GY Yuan, JM Zhang, QD Xu, HR Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fungal hybrid terpenoid saccharides constitute a new and growing family of natural products
with significant biomedical and agricultural activities. One representative family is the …

Hunting for the Intermolecular Diels–Alderase

L Gao, Q Ding, X Lei - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The Diels–Alder reaction is well known as a concerted [4+ 2] cycloaddition
governed by the Woodward–Hoffmann rules. Since Prof. Otto Diels and his student Kurt …

Engineered and total biosynthesis of fungal specialized metabolites

RJ Cox - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Filamentous fungi produce a very wide range of complex and often bioactive metabolites,
demonstrating their inherent ability as hosts of complex biosynthetic pathways. Recent …

Engineering fungal terpene biosynthesis

Z Yin, JS Dickschat - Natural Product Reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2015 to 2022 Fungal terpenoids are of large structural diversity and often exhibit
interesting biological activities. Recent work has focused on two main aspects:(1) the …

Comparing total chemical synthesis and total biosynthesis routes to fungal specialized metabolites

DS Tian, X Zhang, RJ Cox - Natural Product Reports, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering the period 1965–2024 Total synthesis has been defined as the art and science of
making the molecules of living Nature in the laboratory, and by extension, their analogues …