An appraisal of natural products active against parasitic nematodes of animals

JF Garcia-Bustos, BE Sleebs, RB Gasser - Parasites & Vectors, 2019 - Springer
Here, the scientific and patent literature on the activities of purified natural compounds has
been reviewed, with the aim of assessing their suitability as anthelmintic drug discovery …

An enumeration of natural products from microbial, marine and terrestrial sources

F Ntie-Kang, D Svozil - Physical Sciences Reviews, 2020 - degruyter.com
The discovery of a new drug is a multidisciplinary and very costly task. One of the major
steps is the identification of a lead compound, ie a compound with a certain degree of …

Natural Algaecide Sphingosines Identified in Hybrid Straw Decomposition Driven by White‐Rot Fungi

J Hu, E Kokoette, C Xu, S Huang, T Tang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Harmful algal blooms (HABs), which are promoted by eutrophication and intensified by
global warming, occur worldwide. Allelochemicals, which are natural chemicals derived from …

Enhancing the discovery of bioactive secondary metabolites from fungal endophytes using chemical elicitation and variation of fermentation media

MM Gakuubi, KC Ching, M Munusamy… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Endophytic microorganisms are an important source of bioactive secondary metabolites. In
this study, fungal endophytes obtained from A* STAR's Natural Product Library (NPL) and …

In-Silico Identified New Natural Sortase A Inhibitors Disrupt S. aureus Biofilm Formation

KRV Thappeta, LN Zhao, CE Nge, S Crasta… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sortase A (SrtA) is a membrane-associated enzyme that anchors surface-exposed proteins
to the cell wall envelope of Gram-positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus. As SrtA …

Exploring a general multi-pronged activation strategy for natural product discovery in Actinomycetes

DWP Tay, LL Tan, E Heng, N Zulkarnain… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural products possess significant therapeutic potential but remain underutilized despite
advances in genomics and bioinformatics. While there are approaches to activate and …

New high-throughput screening identifies compounds that reduce viability specifically in liver cancer cells that express high levels of SALL4 by inhibiting oxidative …

JL Tan, F Li, JZ Yeo, KJ Yong, MA Bassal, GH Ng… - Gastroenterology, 2019 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Some oncogenes encode transcription factors, but few drugs have been
successfully developed to block their activity specifically in cancer cells. The transcription …

Tandem mass spectral metabolic profiling of 54 actinobacterial strains and their 459 mutants

DWP Tay, LL Tan, E Heng, N Zulkarnain, EJ Chin… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Natural products encompass a diverse range of compounds with high impact applications in
consumer care, agriculture and most notably, therapeutics. However, despite the expansive …

Expression and engineering of PET-degrading enzymes from Microbispora, Nonomuraea, and Micromonospora

E Tiong, YS Koo, J Bi, L Koduru, W Koh… - Applied and …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Low recycling rates coupled with increased production have resulted in an alarming rapid
accumulation of a widely used plastic material, polyethylene terephthalate (PET). With the …

Antibacterial Spirotetronate Polyketides from an Actinomadura sp. Strain A30804

KC Ching, EJ Chin, M Wibowo, ZY Tan, LK Yang… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Large scale cultivation and chemical investigation of an extract obtained from Actimonadura
sp. resulted in the identification of six previously undescribed spirotetronates (pyrrolosporin …