Natural products: a continuing source of novel drug leads

GM Cragg, DJ Newman - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Nature has been a source of medicinal products for millennia, with many
useful drugs developed from plant sources. Following discovery of the penicillins, drug …

Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don: A review of its ethnobotany, phytochemistry, ethnopharmacology and toxicities

S Kumar, B Singh, R Singh - Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2022 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don is a well known
medicinal plant belonging to family Apocynaceae that have been traditionally used as …

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 …

Missing enzymes in the biosynthesis of the anticancer drug vinblastine in Madagascar periwinkle

L Caputi, J Franke, SC Farrow, K Chung, RME Payne… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Vinblastine, a potent anticancer drug, is produced by Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar
periwinkle) in small quantities, and heterologous reconstitution of vinblastine biosynthesis …

Mining the biodiversity of plants: a revolution in the making

V De Luca, V Salim, SM Atsumi, F Yu - Science, 2012 - science.org
Only a small fraction of the immense diversity of plant metabolism has been explored for the
production of new medicines and other products important to human well-being. The …

A sustainable synthesis of green carbon quantum dot (CQD) from Catharanthus roseus (white flowering plant) leaves and investigation of its dual fluorescence …

T Arumugham, M Alagumuthu, RG Amimodu… - Sustainable Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we have presented a facile, efficient and green strategy to prepare fluorescence
CQD for multi ion sensing and bio imaging application. Hydrothermal carbonization …

An alternative route to cyclic terpenes by reductive cyclization in iridoid biosynthesis

F Geu-Flores, NH Sherden, V Courdavault, V Burlat… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The iridoids comprise a large family of distinctive bicyclic monoterpenes that possess a wide
range of pharmacological activities, including anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antifungal and …

Completion of the seven-step pathway from tabersonine to the anticancer drug precursor vindoline and its assembly in yeast

Y Qu, MLAE Easson, J Froese… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Antitumor substances related to vinblastine and vincristine are exclusively found in the
Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle), a member of the Apocynaceae plant family …

A century of studying plant secondary metabolism—from “what?” to “where, how, and why?”

RA Dixon, AJ Dickinson - Plant Physiology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Over the past century, early advances in understanding the identity of the chemicals that
collectively form a living plant have led scientists to deeper investigations exploring where …

The bHLH transcription factor BIS1 controls the iridoid branch of the monoterpenoid indole alkaloid pathway in Catharanthus roseus

A Van Moerkercke, P Steensma… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Plants make specialized bioactive metabolites to defend themselves against attackers. The
conserved control mechanisms are based on transcriptional activation of the respective …