The re-emergence of natural products for drug discovery in the genomics era

AL Harvey, RA Edrada-Ebel, RJ Quinn - Nature reviews drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Natural products have been a rich source of compounds for drug discovery. However, their
use has diminished in the past two decades, in part because of technical barriers to …

Metabolite induction via microorganism co-culture: a potential way to enhance chemical diversity for drug discovery

S Bertrand, N Bohni, S Schnee, O Schumpp… - Biotechnology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Microorganisms have a long track record as important sources of novel bioactive natural
products, particularly in the field of drug discovery. While microbes have been shown to …

Integrated omics analysis of specialized metabolism in medicinal plants

A Rai, K Saito, M Yamazaki - The Plant Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Medicinal plants are a rich source of highly diverse specialized metabolites with important
pharmacological properties. Until recently, plant biologists were limited in their ability to …

Modern plant metabolomics: advanced natural product gene discoveries, improved technologies, and future prospects

LW Sumner, Z Lei, BJ Nikolau, K Saito - Natural product reports, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 to 2014 Plant metabolomics has matured and modern plant metabolomics
has accelerated gene discoveries and the elucidation of a variety of plant natural product …

Marine microorganisms as a promising and sustainable source of bioactive molecules

G Romano, M Costantini, C Sansone… - Marine environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
There is an urgent need to discover new drug entities due to the increased incidence of
severe diseases as cancer and neurodegenerative pathologies, and reducing efficacy of …

21st century natural product research and drug development and traditional medicines

LT Ngo, JI Okogun, WR Folk - Natural product reports, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1987 to 2013 Natural products and related structures are essential sources of new
pharmaceuticals, because of the immense variety of functionally relevant secondary …

Advantages and pitfalls of mass spectrometry based metabolome profiling in systems biology

I Aretz, D Meierhofer - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Mass spectrometry-based metabolome profiling became the method of choice in systems
biology approaches and aims to enhance biological understanding of complex biological …

Network pharmacology of cancer: From understanding of complex interactomes to the design of multi-target specific therapeutics from nature

P Poornima, JD Kumar, Q Zhao, M Blunder… - Pharmacological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite massive investments in drug research and development, the significant decline in
the number of new drugs approved or translated to clinical use raises the question, whether …

Comparative mass spectrometry-based metabolomics strategies for the investigation of microbial secondary metabolites

BC Covington, JA McLean, BO Bachmann - Natural product reports, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 to 2016 The labor-intensive process of microbial natural product discovery is
contingent upon identifying discrete secondary metabolites of interest within complex …

Biosynthesis of terpenoid natural products in fungi

C Schmidt-Dannert - Biotechnology of isoprenoids, 2015 - Springer
<? xm-replace_text {Heading}?> Abstract Tens of thousands of terpenoid natural products
have been isolated from plants and microbial sources. Higher fungi (Ascomycota and …