Triumphs and Challenges of Natural Product Discovery in the Postgenomic Era

C Cano-Prieto, A Undabarrena… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Natural products have played significant roles as medicine and food throughout human
history. Here, we first provide a brief historical overview of natural products, their …

Applying 3D ED/MicroED workflows toward the next frontiers

M Aragon, SEJ Bowman, CH Chen… - … Section C: Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
We report on the latest advancements in Microcrystal Electron Diffraction (3D ED/MicroED),
as discussed during a symposium at the National Center for CryoEM Access and Training …

Discovery of A Chimeric Polyketide Family as Cancer Immunogenic Chemotherapeutic Leads

D Xue, M Xu, MD Madden, X Lian… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Discovery of cancer immunogenic chemotherapeutics represents an emerging, highly
promising direction for cancer treatment that uses a chemical drug to achieve the efficacy of …

Making the Most of 3D Electron Diffraction: Best Practices to Handle a New Tool

KN Truong, S Ito, JM Wojciechowski, CR Göb… - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
Along with the adoption of three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED/MicroED) as a
mainstream tool for structure determination from sub-micron single crystals, questions about …

Assessing the Biosynthetic Inventory of the Biocontrol Fungus Trichoderma afroharzianum T22

W Han, Z Wu, Z Zhong, J Williams… - Journal of agricultural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Natural products biosynthesized from biocontrol fungi in the rhizosphere can have both
beneficial and deleterious effects on plants. Herein, we performed a comprehensive …

Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application

JLN Dinglasan, H Otani, DT Doering… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Microbial secondary metabolites not only have key roles in microbial processes and
relationships but are also valued in various sectors of today's economy, especially in human …

Fast event-based electron counting for small molecule structure determination by MicroED

N Vlahakis, S Qu, L Richards, JA Rodriguez - 2024 - academic.oup.com
Direct electron detectors are now a mainstay in cryoEM, and are increasingly used for
electron diffraction measurements. Event-based electron counting (EBEC), in particular …

Accelerating the identification of novel secondary metabolites in bioenergy plant root exudates using MicroED

SM Powell, D Herrera, IV El Khoury, CM Perdue… - 2024 - osti.gov
Small molecule metabolites drive inter-and intraspecies communication and dependencies
in diverse biological systems, yet a large proportion of these important chemical compounds …

Microcrystal electron diffraction-guided discovery of fungal metabolites

D Delgadillo, L Wu, C Wang, Y Zhang, J Burch, K Jha… - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
Nature remains a vast repository of complex and functional metabolites whose structural
characterization continues to drive innovations in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and …