Strategies for natural product discovery by unlocking cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters in fungi

JY Hur, E Jeong, YC Kim, SR Lee - Separations, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent advancements in genome sequencing and bioinformatic analysis of fungal genomes
have revealed that fungi possess cryptic or silent biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). This …

[HTML][HTML] Developing fungal heterologous expression platforms to explore and improve the production of natural products from fungal biodiversity

X Meng, Y Fang, M Ding, Y Zhang, K Jia, Z Li… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural products from fungi represent an important source of biologically active metabolites
notably for therapeutic agent development. Genome sequencing revealed that the number …

Biosynthetic gene clusters and the evolution of fungal chemodiversity

A Rokas, ME Mead, JL Steenwyk, HA Raja… - Natural product …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2019 Fungi produce a remarkable diversity of secondary metabolites: small,
bioactive molecules not required for growth but which are essential to their ecological …

How to completely squeeze a fungus—advanced genome mining tools for novel bioactive substances

A Schüller, L Studt-Reinhold, J Strauss - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fungal species have the capability of producing an overwhelming diversity of bioactive
substances that can have beneficial but also detrimental effects on human health. These so …

Strategy for efficient cloning of biosynthetic gene clusters from fungi

R Li, ZX Li, K Ma, G Wang, W Li, HW Liu… - Science China Life …, 2019 - Springer
Filamentous fungi are excellent sources for the production of a group of bioactive small
molecules which are often called secondary metabolites (SMs). The advanced genome …

[HTML][HTML] Global Analysis of Natural Products Biosynthetic Diversity Encoded in Fungal Genomes

S Zhang, G Shi, X Xu, X Guo, S Li, Z Li, Q Wu… - Journal of …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Fungal secondary metabolites (SMs) represent an invaluable source of therapeutic drugs.
Genomics-based approaches to SM discovery have revealed a vast and largely untapped …

Comprehensive curation and analysis of fungal biosynthetic gene clusters of published natural products

YF Li, KJS Tsai, CJB Harvey, JJ Li, BE Ary… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Microorganisms produce a wide range of natural products (NPs) with clinically and
agriculturally relevant biological activities. In bacteria and fungi, genes encoding successive …

A scalable platform to identify fungal secondary metabolites and their gene clusters

KD Clevenger, JW Bok, R Ye, GP Miley… - Nature chemical …, 2017 - nature.com
The genomes of filamentous fungi contain up to 90 biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs)
encoding diverse secondary metabolites—an enormous reservoir of untapped chemical …

Unlocking fungal cryptic natural products

YM Chiang, KH Lee, JF Sanchez… - Natural product …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent published sequencing of fungal genomes has revealed that these microorganisms
have a surprisingly large number of secondary metabolite pathways that can serve as …

Toward awakening cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters in filamentous fungi

FY Lim, JF Sanchez, CCC Wang, NP Keller - Methods in enzymology, 2012 - Elsevier
Mining for novel natural compounds is of eminent importance owing to the continuous need
for new pharmaceuticals. Filamentous fungi are historically known to harbor the genetic …