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 …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to establish the link between biosynthetic gene clusters and secondary metabolites

I Kjærbølling, UH Mortensen, T Vesth… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Filamentous fungi produce a vast number of bioactive secondary metabolites (SMs), some of
which have found applications in the pharmaceutical industry including as antibiotics and …

Genome mining for sesterterpenes using bifunctional terpene synthases reveals a unified intermediate of di/sesterterpenes

Y Ye, A Minami, A Mandi, C Liu… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Genome mining is a promising method to discover novel secondary metabolites in the
postgenomic era. We applied the Aspergillus oryzae heterologous expression system to …

Secondary metabolites from hypocrealean entomopathogenic fungi: novel bioactive compounds

L Zhang, OE Fasoyin, I Molnár, Y Xu - Natural Product Reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2014 up to the third quarter of 2019 Entomopathogens constitute a unique,
specialized trophic subgroup of fungi, most of whose members belong to the order …

Diels–Alder reactions during the biosynthesis of sorbicillinoids

L Kahlert, EF Bassiony, RJ Cox… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The sorbicillinoids are a class of biologically active and structurally diverse fungal
polyketides arising from sorbicillin. Through co‐expression of sorA, sorB, sorC, and sorD …

Efficient Reconstitution of Basidiomycota Diterpene Erinacine Gene Cluster in Ascomycota Host Aspergillus oryzae Based on Genomic DNA Sequences

C Liu, A Minami, T Ozaki, J Wu… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
To develop the versatile methodology for genome mining of mushroom metabolites, we
examined the production of bioactive diterpenes erinacines using genomic DNA sequences …

Biosynthesis of Mycotoxin Fusaric Acid and Application of a PLP-Dependent Enzyme for Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Substituted l-Pipecolic Acids

Y Hai, M Chen, A Huang, Y Tang - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fusaric acid (FA) is a well-known mycotoxin that plays an important role in plant pathology.
The biosynthetic gene cluster for FA has been identified, but the biosynthetic pathway …

Total Heterologous Biosynthesis of Fungal Natural Products in Aspergillus nidulans

YM Chiang, TS Lin, CCC Wang - Journal of natural products, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fungal natural products comprise a wide range of bioactive compounds including important
drugs and agrochemicals. Intriguingly, bioinformatic analyses of fungal genomes have …

Recent advances in reconstructing microbial secondary metabolites biosynthesis in Aspergillus spp.

Y He, B Wang, W Chen, RJ Cox, J He, F Chen - Biotechnology Advances, 2018 - Elsevier
High throughput genome sequencing has revealed a multitude of potential secondary
metabolites biosynthetic pathways that remain cryptic. Pathway reconstruction coupled with …

Unveiling the biosynthetic pathway of the ribosomally synthesized and post‐translationally modified peptide ustiloxin B in filamentous fungi

Y Ye, A Minami, Y Igarashi, M Izumikawa… - Angewandte …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The biosynthetic machinery of the first fungal ribosomally synthesized and post‐
translationally modified peptide (RiPP) ustiloxin B was elucidated through a series of gene …