Scaffold and structural diversity of the secondary metabolite space of medicinal fungi

RP Vivek-Ananth, AK Sahoo, SP Baskaran… - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Medicinal fungi, including mushrooms, have well-documented therapeutic uses. In this
study, we perform a cheminformatics-based investigation of the scaffold and structural …

MeFSAT: a curated natural product database specific to secondary metabolites of medicinal fungi

RP Vivek-Ananth, AK Sahoo, K Kumaravel… - Rsc Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fungi are a rich source of secondary metabolites which constitutes a valuable and diverse
chemical space of natural products. Medicinal fungi have been used in traditional medicine …

Scaffold diversity of fungal metabolites

M González-Medina, JR Owen, T El-Elimat… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Many drug discovery projects rely on commercial compounds to discover active leads.
However, current commercial libraries, with mostly synthetic compounds, access a small …

Species prioritization based on spectral dissimilarity: A case study of polyporoid fungal species

HT Pham, KH Lee, E Jeong, S Woo, J Yu… - Journal of Natural …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biological species collections are critical for natural product drug discovery programs.
However, prioritization of target species in massive collections remains difficult. Here, we …

Bioactivity-driven fungal metabologenomics identifies antiproliferative stemphone analogs and their biosynthetic gene cluster

NJ Ayon, CE Earp, R Gupta, FA Butun, AE Clements… - Metabolomics, 2024 - Springer
Introduction Fungi biosynthesize chemically diverse secondary metabolites with a wide
range of biological activities. Natural product scientists have increasingly turned towards …

Large-scale culture as a complementary and practical method for discovering natural products with novel skeletons

Z Hu, Y Ye, Y Zhang - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to July 2020 Fungal metabolites with diverse and novel scaffolds can be
assembled from well-known biosynthetic precursors through various mechanisms. Recent …

Exploiting the natural product potential of fungi with integrated-omics and synthetic biology approaches

ET Hillman, LR Readnour, KV Solomon - Current Opinion in Systems …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fungi are rich, underexploited reservoirs for natural products that may serve as medicines,
commodity chemicals, insecticides, pesticides and other valuable chemicals. Moreover, the …

Fungal natural products galaxy: Biochemistry and molecular genetics toward blockbuster drugs discovery

K Bhattarai, ME Kabir, R Bastola, B Baral - Advances in genetics, 2021 - Elsevier
Secondary metabolites synthesized by fungi have become a precious source of inspiration
for the design of novel drugs. Indeed, fungi are prolific producers of fascinating, diverse …

Comparative transcriptome analysis shows conserved metabolic regulation during production of secondary metabolites in filamentous fungi

JC Nielsen, S Prigent, S Grijseels, M Workman, B Ji… - Msystems, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Filamentous fungi possess great potential as sources of medicinal bioactive compounds,
such as antibiotics, but efficient production is hampered by a limited understanding of how …

Chemoinformatic expedition of the chemical space of fungal products

M González-Medina, FD Prieto-Martínez… - Future medicinal …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: Fungi are valuable resources for bioactive secondary metabolites. However, the
chemical space of fungal secondary metabolites has been studied only on a limited basis …