Marine bacteria and fungi are of considerable importance as new promising sources of a
huge number of biologically active products. Some of these marine species live in a stressful …

Covering: 2005 to 2011 This review studies the impact of whole genome sequencing on
Aspergillus secondary metabolite research. There has been a proliferation of many new …

Rhizophora mucronata is an important ecosystem entity of the Malaysian mangrove forest.
Since the species grows in a harsh environment, any organism that is isolated from this …

The fungal metabolite (+)-11, 11′-dideoxyverticillin A, a cytotoxic alkaloid isolated from a
marine Penicillium sp., belongs to a fascinating family of densely functionalized …

Conspectus Natural products chemistry has historically been the prime arena for the
discovery of new chemical transformations and the fountain of insights into key biological …

Filamentous fungi produce a variety of secondary metabolites of diverse beneficial and
detrimental activities to humankind. The genes required for a given secondary metabolite …

Gliotoxin, and other related molecules, are encoded by multi-gene clusters and
biosynthesized by fungi using non-ribosomal biosynthetic mechanisms. Almost universally …

Covering: 1936 to 2013 Epidithiodioxopiperazine alkaloids possess an astonishing array of
molecular architecture and generally exhibit potent biological activity. Nearly twenty distinct …

Since the synthesis of tropinone in the early 20th century, generations of chemists have
looked to nature for inspiration in developing elegant syntheses of natural products …

Diketopiperazines (DKPs), which are cyclic dipeptides, have been detected in a variety of
natural resources. Recently, the interest in these compounds increased significantly …