Natural products as sources of new drugs over the nearly four decades from 01/1981 to 09/2019

DJ Newman, GM Cragg - Journal of natural products, 2020 - ACS Publications
This review is an updated and expanded version of the five prior reviews that were
published in this journal in 1997, 2003, 2007, 2012, and 2016. For all approved therapeutic …

Natural product drug discovery in the artificial intelligence era

FI Saldívar-González, VD Aldas-Bulos… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural products (NPs) are primarily recognized as privileged structures to interact with
protein drug targets. Their unique characteristics and structural diversity continue to marvel …

Chemical evolution of natural product structure

M Grigalunas, S Brakmann… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Natural products are the result of Nature's exploration of biologically relevant chemical
space through evolution and an invaluable source of bioactive small molecules for chemical …

“Magic chloro”: profound effects of the chlorine atom in drug discovery

D Chiodi, Y Ishihara - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chlorine is one of the most common atoms present in small-molecule drugs beyond carbon,
hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. There are currently more than 250 FDA-approved chlorine …

Expanding chemistry through in vitro and in vivo biocatalysis

EN Kissman, MB Sosa, DC Millar, EJ Koleski… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Living systems contain a vast network of metabolic reactions, providing a wealth of enzymes
and cells as potential biocatalysts for chemical processes. The properties of protein and cell …

Sprouts and microgreens: Trends, opportunities, and horizons for novel research

A Galieni, B Falcinelli, F Stagnari, A Datti, P Benincasa - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sprouts and microgreens have attracted tremendous interest across multiple disciplines in
recent years. Here, we critically review the most recent advances to underscore research …

Planet: a multi-objective graph neural network model for protein–ligand binding affinity prediction

X Zhang, H Gao, H Wang, Z Chen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Predicting protein–ligand binding affinity is a central issue in drug design. Various deep
learning models have been published in recent years, where many of them rely on 3D …

Cheminformatics in natural product‐based drug discovery

Y Chen, J Kirchmair - Molecular Informatics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This review seeks to provide a timely survey of the scope and limitations of cheminformatics
methods in natural product‐based drug discovery. Following an overview of data resources …

The symbiotic relationship between drug discovery and organic chemistry

OO Grygorenko, DM Volochnyuk… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
All pharmaceutical products contain organic molecules; the source may be a natural product
or a fully synthetic molecule, or a combination of both. Thus, it follows that organic chemistry …

Ring systems in natural products: structural diversity, physicochemical properties, and coverage by synthetic compounds

Y Chen, C Rosenkranz, S Hirte, J Kirchmair - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 The structural core of most small-molecule drugs is formed by a ring
system, often derived from natural products. However, despite the importance of natural …