Recently Discovered Secondary Metabolites from Streptomyces Species

HJ Lacey, PJ Rutledge - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Streptomyces genus has been a rich source of bioactive natural products, medicinal
chemicals, and novel drug leads for three-quarters of a century. Yet studies suggest that the …

Bacterial pathogens: threat or treat (a review on bioactive natural products from bacterial pathogens)

F Maglangit, Y Yu, H Deng - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the second quarter of 2020 Threat or treat? While pathogenic bacteria pose
significant threats, they also represent a huge reservoir of potential pharmaceuticals to treat …

Molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations and binding free energy studies of interactions between Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pks13, PknG and bioactive …

K Nyambo, KI Tapfuma, F Adu-Amankwaah, L Julius… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Mycobacterial pathogens present a significant challenge to disease control efforts globally
due to their inherent resistance to multiple antibiotics. The rise of drug-resistant strains of …

Strasseriolides display in vitro and in vivo activity against trypanosomal parasites and cause morphological and size defects in Trypanosoma cruzi

C Bosch-Navarrete, G Pérez-Moreno… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Neglected diseases caused by kinetoplastid parasites are a health burden in tropical and
subtropical countries. The need to create safe and effective medicines to improve treatment …

Characterization of Streptomyces Species and Validation of Antimicrobial Activity of Their Metabolites through Molecular Docking

S Bhandari, BR Bhattarai, A Adhikari, B Aryal… - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Finding new antibacterial agents from natural products is urgently necessary to address the
growing cases of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Actinomycetes are regarded as an excellent …

A ribosomally synthesised and post-translationally modified peptide containing a β-enamino acid and a macrocyclic motif

S Wang, S Lin, Q Fang, R Gyampoh, Z Lu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are structurally
complex natural products with diverse bioactivities. Here we report discovery of a RiPP …

Deletion of the accramycin pathway-specific regulatory gene accJ activates the production of unrelated polyketide metabolites

F Maglangit, K Kyeremeh, H Deng - Natural Product Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The manipulation of regulatory genes has been employed to awaken cryptic metabolites in
Streptomyces. Of particular interest in recent years is the effect of disruption of a pathway …

Discovery of New Antibacterial Accramycins from a Genetic Variant of the Soil Bacterium, Streptomyces sp. MA37

F Maglangit, Y Zhang, K Kyeremeh, H Deng - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Continued mining of natural products from the strain Streptomyces sp. MA37 in our
laboratory led to the discovery of a minor specialized metabolite (SM) called accramycin A …

Novel South African Rare Actinomycete Kribbella speibonae Strain SK5: A Prolific Producer of Hydroxamate Siderophores including New Dehydroxylated …

KS Acquah, DR Beukes, DF Warner, PR Meyers… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we report on the chemistry of the rare South African Actinomycete Kribbella
speibonae strain SK5, a prolific producer of hydroxamate siderophores and their congeners …

Targeted Isolation of Indole Alkaloids from Streptomyces sp. CT37

Q Fang, F Maglangit, M Mugat, C Urwald, K Kyeremeh… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Four compounds (1–4) were isolated from the extracts of Streptomyces sp. CT37 using
bioassay in conjunction with mass spectrometric molecular networking (MN) driven isolation …