[HTML][HTML] Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities

AG Atanasov, SB Zotchev, VM Dirsch… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Natural products and their structural analogues have historically made a major contribution
to pharmacotherapy, especially for cancer and infectious diseases. Nevertheless, natural …

Strategies to access biosynthetic novelty in bacterial genomes for drug discovery

F Hemmerling, J Piel - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Bacteria provide a rich source of natural products with potential therapeutic applications,
such as novel antibiotic classes or anticancer drugs. Bioactivity-guided screening of …

Genome mining methods to discover bioactive natural products

KD Bauman, KS Butler, BS Moore… - Natural Product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2016 to 2021 With genetic information available for hundreds of thousands of
organisms in publicly accessible databases, scientists have an unprecedented opportunity …

Valinophos reveals a new route in microbial phosphonate biosynthesis that is broadly conserved in nature

Y Zhang, L Chen, JA Wilson, J Cui… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phosphonate natural products are potent inhibitors of cellular metabolism with an
established record of commercialization in medicine and biotechnology. Although genome …

A phosphonate natural product made by Pantoea ananatis is necessary and sufficient for the hallmark lesions of onion center rot

ALA Polidore, L Furiassi, PJ Hergenrother, WW Metcalf - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pantoea ananatis is the primary cause of onion center rot. Genetic data suggest that a
phosphonic acid natural product is required for pathogenesis; however, the nature of the …

Biosynthesis of Argolaphos Illuminates the Unusual Biochemical Origins of Aminomethylphosphonate and Nε-Hydroxyarginine Containing Natural Products

Y Zhang, TM Pham, C Kayrouz… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phosphonate natural products have a history of successful application in medicine and
biotechnology due to their ability to inhibit essential cellular pathways. This has inspired …

Exploitation of microbial activities at low pH to enhance planetary health

M Atasoy, A Álvarez Ordóñez, A Cenian… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Awareness is growing that human health cannot be considered in isolation but is
inextricably woven with the health of the environment in which we live. It is, however, under …

Convergent and divergent biosynthetic strategies towards phosphonic acid natural products

KS Ju, SK Nair - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2022 - Elsevier
The phosphonate class of natural products have received significant interests in the post-
genomic era due to the relative ease with which their biosynthetic genes may be identified …

Phosphonoalamides reveal the biosynthetic origin of phosphonoalanine natural products and a convergent pathway for their diversification

JJ Cui, Y Zhang, KS Ju - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphonate natural products, with their potent inhibitory activity, have found widespread
use across multiple industries. Their success has inspired development of genome mining …

Biosynthesis of the Fungal Organophosphonate Fosfonochlorin Involves an Iron (II) and 2‐(Oxo) glutarate Dependent Oxacyclase

SR Gama, T Stankovic, K Hupp, A Al Hejami… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal metabolite Fosfonochlorin features a chloroacetyl moiety that is unusual within
known phosphonate natural product biochemistry. Putative biosynthetic genes encoding …