Metallo-β-lactamases in the age of multidrug resistance: from structure and mechanism to evolution, dissemination, and inhibitor design

G Bahr, LJ Gonzalez, AJ Vila - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major problems in current practical medicine. The
spread of genes coding for resistance determinants among bacteria challenges the use of …

Safety of the fungal workhorses of industrial biotechnology: update on the mycotoxin and secondary metabolite potential of Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus oryzae, and …

JC Frisvad, LLH Møller, TO Larsen, R Kumar… - Applied Microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
This review presents an update on the current knowledge of the secondary metabolite
potential of the major fungal species used in industrial biotechnology, ie, Aspergillus niger …

Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi

R Riley, AA Salamov, DW Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Basidiomycota (basidiomycetes) make up 32% of the described fungi and include most
wood-decaying species, as well as pathogens and mutualistic symbionts. Wood-decaying …

Biosynthesis of fungal meroterpenoids

Y Matsuda, I Abe - Natural product reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to September 2015 Meroterpenoids are hybrid natural products that partially
originate from the terpenoid pathway. The meroterpenoids derived from fungi display quite …

Chain release mechanisms in polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis

RF Little, C Hertweck - Natural Product Reports, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Review covering up to mid-2021 The structure of polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide
natural products is strongly influenced by how they are released from their biosynthetic …

[HTML][HTML] Developing fungal heterologous expression platforms to explore and improve the production of natural products from fungal biodiversity

X Meng, Y Fang, M Ding, Y Zhang, K Jia, Z Li… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural products from fungi represent an important source of biologically active metabolites
notably for therapeutic agent development. Genome sequencing revealed that the number …

Genetic platforms for heterologous expression of microbial natural products

JJ Zhang, X Tang, BS Moore - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2005 up to 2019 Natural products are of paramount importance in human
medicine. Not only are most antibacterial and anticancer drugs derived directly from or …

Navigating the fungal polyketide chemical space: from genes to molecules

YH Chooi, Y Tang - The Journal of organic chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
The iterative type I polyketide synthases (IPKSs) are central to the biosynthesis of an
enormously diverse array of natural products in fungi. These natural products, known as …

An efficient system for heterologous expression of secondary metabolite genes in Aspergillus nidulans

YM Chiang, CE Oakley, M Ahuja… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Fungal secondary metabolites (SMs) are an important source of medically valuable
compounds. Genome projects have revealed that fungi have many SM biosynthetic gene …

Efficient genome editing using tRNA promoter-driven CRISPR/Cas9 gRNA in Aspergillus niger

L Song, JP Ouedraogo, M Kolbusz, TTM Nguyen… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
As a powerful tool for fast and precise genome editing, the CRISPR/Cas9 system has been
applied in filamentous fungi to improve the efficiency of genome alteration. However, the …