Covering: up to mid-2020 Terpenoids, also called isoprenoids, are the largest and most
structurally diverse family of natural products. Found in all domains of life, there are over 80 …

Phenazines are natural products which are produced by bacteria or by archaeal
Methanosarcina species. The tricyclic ring system enables redox processes, which …

Phenazines are versatile secondary metabolites of bacterial origin that function in biological
control of plant pathogens and contribute to the ecological fitness and pathogenicity of the …

Covering: 2000 to 2010 Ergot alkaloids are toxins and important pharmaceuticals which are
produced biotechnologically on an industrial scale. They have been identified in two orders …

Attachment of isoprene units to various acceptors by prenylation plays an important role in
primary and secondary metabolism of living organisms. Protein prenylation belongs to …

Ergot alkaloids are toxins and important pharmaceuticals that are produced
biotechnologically on an industrial scale. The first committed step of ergot alkaloid …

Phenazine compounds represent a large class of bacterial metabolites that are produced by
some fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. and a few other bacterial genera. Phenazines were …

Highlights•Phenazines are bacterial and archeal virulence factors and respiratory
pigments.•Their biosynthesis from chorismate involves five enzymes encoded in the phz …

Physicians of the 19th century were familiar with the conspicuous occurrence of “blue pus”,
which they sometimes observed in patients with severe purulent wounds. Even older are …

Phenazines are natural bacterial antibiotics that can protect crops from disease. However,
for most crops it is unknown which producers and specific phenazines are ecologically …