Antifungal natural products

SC Heard, G Wu, JM Winter - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Natural products play a crucial role in antifungal drug discovery.•Natural products
represent many first-in-class antifungal agents in clinical trials with new modes of …

Biosynthesis of C-nucleoside antibiotics in actinobacteria: recent advances and future developments

M Zhang, L Kong, R Gong, M Iorio, S Donadio… - Microbial Cell …, 2022 - Springer
Epidemic diseases and antibiotic resistance are urgent threats to global health, and human
is confronted with an unprecedented dilemma to conquer them by expediting development …

Unusual dioxygen-dependent reactions catalyzed by nonheme iron enzymes in natural product biosynthesis

R Ushimaru, I Abe - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nonheme iron-dependent enzymatic reactions play crucial roles in building and modifying
bioactive organic molecules in all major classes of natural product pathways. While the …

Biosynthetic Origin of the octose core and its mechanism of assembly during apramycin biosynthesis

PH Fan, S Sato, YC Yeh, H Liu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Apramycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic isolated from Streptoalloteichus tenebrarius and
S. hindustanus that has found clinical use in veterinary medicine. The apramycin structure is …

Two Cryptic Self‐Resistance Mechanisms in Streptomyces tenebrarius Reveal Insights into the Biosynthesis of Apramycin

Q Zhang, HT Chi, L Wu, Z Deng, Y Yu - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Apramycin is a clinically promising aminoglycoside antibiotic (AGA). To date, mechanisms
underlying the biosynthesis and self‐resistance of apramycin remain largely unknown. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Intracellularly driven chemical modifications of antimicrobial secondary metabolites: potent mechanisms of self-resistance

X Li, J Ju - Pharmaceutical Science Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural products (NPs), especially antibiotics, exhibit diverse bioactivities and often play
critically important roles in dictating and/or driving medical, health, agricultural, animal …

The Fatal Mushroom Neurotoxin Muscarine is Released from a Harmless Phosphorylated Precursor upon Cellular Injury

S Dörner, F Trottmann, PM Jordan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract l‐(+)‐Muscarine (1)‐producing mushrooms pose a severe threat to human health
as ingestion can result in circulatory collapse or even death. However, their metabolic profile …

Pseudouridine-modifying enzymes SapB and SapH control entry into the pseudouridimycin biosynthetic pathway

E Artukka, R Schnell, K Palmu, P Rosenqvist… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pseudouridimycin is a microbial C-nucleoside natural product that specifically inhibits
bacterial RNA polymerases by binding to the active site and competing with uridine …

β-Hydroxylation of α-amino-β-hydroxylbutanoyl-glycyluridine catalyzed by a nonheme hydroxylase ensures the maturation of caprazamycin

SM Zadeh, MH Chen, ZC Wang, EK Astani… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Caprazamycin is a nucleoside antibiotic that inhibits phospho-N-acetylmuramyl-
pentapeptide translocase (MraY). The biosynthesis of nucleoside antibiotics has been …

From solo to duet, intersections of natural product assembly with self-resistance

L Wu, Q Zhang, Z Deng, Y Yu - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 Self-resistance mechanisms adopted by natural product producers
have long been recognized and studied as a standalone system separated from the …