Fighting antibiotic resistance—strategies and (pre) clinical developments to find new antibacterials

S Walesch, J Birkelbach, G Jézéquel, FPJ Haeckl… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Antibacterial resistance is one of the greatest threats to human health. The development of
new therapeutics against bacterial pathogens has slowed drastically since the approvals of …

Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery

MW Mullowney, KR Duncan, SS Elsayed… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Developments in computational omics technologies have provided new means to access
the hidden diversity of natural products, unearthing new potential for drug discovery. In …

MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters

BR Terlouw, K Blin, JC Navarro-Munoz… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With an ever-increasing amount of (meta) genomic data being deposited in sequence
databases,(meta) genome mining for natural product biosynthetic pathways occupies a …

microbeMASST: a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data

S Zuffa, R Schmid, A Bauermeister, PW P. Gomes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract microbeMASST, a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry (MS) search tool,
tackles limited microbial metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics experiments …

IMPPAT 2.0: An enhanced and expanded phytochemical atlas of Indian medicinal plants

RP Vivek-Ananth, K Mohanraj, AK Sahoo, A Samal - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Compilation, curation, digitization, and exploration of the phytochemical space of Indian
medicinal plants can expedite ongoing efforts toward natural product and traditional …

Advanced methods for natural products discovery: bioactivity screening, dereplication, metabolomics profiling, genomic sequencing, databases and informatic tools …

SP Gaudêncio, E Bayram, L Lukić Bilela, M Cueto… - Marine drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Natural Products (NP) are essential for the discovery of novel drugs and products for
numerous biotechnological applications. The NP discovery process is expensive and time …

As we drink and breathe: Adverse health effects of microcystins and other harmful algal bloom toxins in the liver, gut, lungs and beyond

A Lad, JD Breidenbach, RC Su, J Murray, R Kuang… - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Freshwater harmful algal blooms (HABs) are increasing in number and severity worldwide.
These HABs are chiefly composed of one or more species of cyanobacteria, also known as …

Machine learning-enabled genome mining and bioactivity prediction of natural products

Y Yuan, C Shi, H Zhao - ACS synthetic biology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Natural products (NPs) produced by microorganisms and plants are a major source of drugs,
herbicides, and fungicides. Thanks to recent advances in DNA sequencing, bioinformatics …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces

J Parra, A Beaton, RF Seipke, B Wilkinson… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Throughout the golden age of antibiotic discovery, Streptomyces have been unsurpassed for
their ability to produce bioactive metabolites. Yet, this success has been hampered by …

Recent advances in mass spectrometry-based computational metabolomics

TMD Ebbels, JJJ van der Hooft, H Chatelaine… - Current opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
The computational metabolomics field brings together computer scientists, bioinformaticians,
chemists, clinicians, and biologists to maximize the impact of metabolomics across a wide …