Modern approaches in the discovery and development of plant-based natural products and their analogues as potential therapeutic agents

A Najmi, SA Javed, M Al Bratty, HA Alhazmi - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Natural products represents an important source of new lead compounds in drug discovery
research. Several drugs currently used as therapeutic agents have been developed from …

Plant-derived anticancer compounds as new perspectives in drug discovery and alternative therapy

CA Dehelean, I Marcovici, C Soica, M Mioc… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Despite the recent advances in the field of chemically synthetized pharmaceutical agents,
nature remains the main supplier of bioactive molecules. The research of natural products is …

Single-cell multi-omics in the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus

C Li, JC Wood, AH Vu, JP Hamilton… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in omics technologies now permit the generation of highly contiguous genome
assemblies, detection of transcripts and metabolites at the level of single cells and high …

Plants metabolites: possibility of natural therapeutics against the COVID-19 pandemic

FR Bhuiyan, S Howlader, T Raihan, M Hasan - Frontiers in medicine, 2020 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19, a disease induced by SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus-2), has been the cause of a worldwide pandemic. Though extensive research …

Exploration of natural compounds with anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity via inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro

S Bharadwaj, A Dubey, U Yadava… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a dreaded pandemic in lack of specific …

High-throughput transcriptome profiling in drug and biomarker discovery

X Yang, L Kui, M Tang, D Li, K Wei, W Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The development of new drugs is multidisciplinary and systematic work. High-throughput
techniques based on “-omics” have driven the discovery of biomarkers in diseases and …

Fungal endophytes as efficient sources of plant-derived bioactive compounds and their prospective applications in natural product drug discovery: Insights, avenues …

A Singh, DK Singh, RN Kharwar, JF White, SK Gond - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fungal endophytes are well-established sources of biologically active natural compounds
with many producing pharmacologically valuable specific plant-derived products. This …

Camptothecin's journey from discovery to WHO Essential Medicine: Fifty years of promise

N Khaiwa, NR Maarouf, MH Darwish… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nature represents a rich source of compounds used for the treatment of many diseases.
Camptothecin (CPT), isolated from the bark of Camptotheca acuminata, is a cytotoxic …

A review on antifungal and antibacterial activities of some medicinal plants

S Ahmadi, G Ahmadi, H Ahmadi - Micro Nano Bio Aspects, 2022 - mnba-journal.com
The recurrence of fungal infections that occur during allogeneic bone marrow
transplantation, cancer treatment, organ transplantation, and infected wounds has …

Advances in fingerprint analysis for standardization and quality control of herbal medicines

E Noviana, G Indrayanto, A Rohman - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Herbal drugs or herbal medicines (HMs) have a long-standing history as natural remedies
for preventing and curing diseases. HMs have garnered greater interest during the past …