The secondary metabolites of rare actinomycetes: chemistry and bioactivity

T Ding, LJ Yang, WD Zhang, YH Shen - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Actinomycetes are outstanding and fascinating sources of potent bioactive compounds,
particularly antibiotics. In recent years, rare actinomycetes have had an increasingly …

Discovery of novel secondary metabolites encoded in actinomycete genomes through coculture

JH Kim, N Lee, S Hwang, W Kim, Y Lee… - Journal of Industrial …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Actinomycetes are a rich source of bioactive natural products important for novel drug leads.
Recent genome mining approaches have revealed an enormous number of secondary …

Genomic and spectroscopic signature-based discovery of natural macrolactams

YH Shin, JH Im, I Kang, E Kim, SC Jang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The logical and effective discovery of macrolactams, structurally unique natural molecules
with diverse biological activities, has been limited by a lack of targeted search methods …

Utilizing cross-species co-cultures for discovery of novel natural products

L Zhuang, H Zhang - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cross-species co-cultures can be used to activate cryptic genes' expression for
biosynthesis of novel natural products.•A variety of co-cultivation methods have been …

Activation of silent biosynthetic pathways and discovery of novel secondary metabolites in actinomycetes by co-culture with mycolic acid-containing bacteria

S Hoshino, H Onaka, I Abe - Journal of Industrial Microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial secondary metabolites (SM) are rich sources of drug leads, and in particular,
numerous metabolites have been isolated from actinomycetes. It was revealed by recent …

Renewed interests in the discovery of bioactive actinomycete metabolites driven by emerging technologies

J Ossai, B Khatabi, SE Nybo… - Journal of applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Actinomycetes are prolific sources of bioactive molecules. Traditional workflows including
bacterial isolation, fermentation, metabolite identification and structure elucidation have …

Elicitation for activation of the actinomycete genome's cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters

SS El-Hawary, MHA Hassan, AO Hudhud… - RSC …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
This review summarizes the recent advances in the elicitation approaches used to activate
the actinomycete genome's cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters and shows the …

An isotopic labeling approach linking natural products with biosynthetic gene clusters

CS McCaughey, JA van Santen… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Major advances in genome sequencing and large-scale biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC)
analysis have prompted an age of natural product discovery driven by genome mining. Still …

Natural polyenic macrolactams and polycyclic derivatives generated by transannular pericyclic reactions: optimized biogenesis challenging chemical synthesis

R Alvarez, AR de Lera - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering from 1992 to the end of 2020-11-20. Genetically-encoded polyenic macrolactams,
which are constructed by Nature using hybrid polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide …

Structural characterization and SARS-CoV-2 inhibitory effects of alkaloids from the roots of Asarum heterotropoides var. mandshuricum (Aristolochiaceae)

TT Le, TQ Cao, MT Ha, KH Han, YB Kim, JA Kim… - Phytochemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Asarum heterotropoides var. mandshuricum F. Maekawa (Aristolochiaceae), well-known as
“Marchurian Wildginger”, shows many bioactivities that contribute to its therapeutic effects …