[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 …

Aspergillus niger as a Secondary Metabolite Factory

R Yu, J Liu, Y Wang, H Wang, H Zhang - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aspergillus niger, one of the most common and important fungal species, is ubiquitous in
various environments. A. niger isolates possess a large number of cryptic biosynthetic gene …

Recent advances in the genome mining of Aspergillus secondary metabolites (covering 2012–2018)

J Romsdahl, CCC Wang - Medchemcomm, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Secondary metabolites (SMs) produced by filamentous fungi possess diverse bioactivities
that make them excellent drug candidates. Whole genome sequencing has revealed that …

Elucidation of Chalkophomycin Biosynthesis Reveals N-Hydroxypyrrole-Forming Enzymes

AM Crooke, AK Chand, Z Cui… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Reactive functional groups, such as N-nitrosamines, impart unique bioactivities to the
natural products in which they are found. Recent work has illuminated enzymatic N …

Heterologous and engineered biosynthesis of nematocidal polyketide–nonribosomal peptide hybrid macrolactone from extreme thermophilic fungi

JM Zhang, HH Wang, X Liu, CH Hu… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fungal polyketide–nonribosomal peptide (PK–NRP) hybrid macrolactones are a growing
family of natural products with biomedical and agricultural activities. One of the most …

Biosynthesis of fungal polyketides by collaborating and trans-acting enzymes

E Skellam - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1999 up to 2021 Fungal polyketides encompass a range of structurally diverse
molecules with a wide variety of biological activities. The giant multifunctional enzymes that …

Biosynthetic strategies of berberine bridge enzyme-like flavoprotein oxidases toward structural diversification in natural product biosynthesis

G Tjallinks, A Mattevi, MW Fraaije - Biochemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Berberine bridge enzyme-like oxidases are often involved in natural product biosynthesis
and are seen as essential enzymes for the generation of intricate pharmacophores. These …

Predicting the chemical space of fungal polyketides by phylogeny-based bioinformatics analysis of polyketide synthase-nonribosomal peptide synthetase and its …

A Minami, T Ugai, T Ozaki, H Oikawa - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Fungal polyketide synthase (PKS)–nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) hybrids are
key enzymes for synthesizing structurally diverse hybrid natural products (NPs) with …

Biosynthetic strategies for tetramic acid formation

X Mo, TAM Gulder - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the end of 2020 Natural products bearing tetramic acid units as part of
complex molecular architectures exhibit a broad range of potent biological activities. These …

Aspergillus niger: A Hundred Years of Contribution to the Natural Products Chemistry

MAS Lima, MCF Oliveira, ATÁ Pimenta… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
Aspergillus niger is a phytopathogenic fungus responsible for the plant disease called “black
mold”, and it is considered the most versatile microorganism for producing acids, proteins …