Importance of microbial natural products and the need to revitalize their discovery

AL Demain - Journal of industrial microbiology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Microbes are the leading producers of useful natural products. Natural products from
microbes and plants make excellent drugs. Significant portions of the microbial genomes are …

Natural products for cancer chemotherapy

AL Demain, P Vaishnav - Microbial biotechnology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
For over 40 years, natural products have served us well in combating cancer. The main
sources of these successful compounds are microbes and plants from the terrestrial and …

Impact of natural products on developing new anti-cancer agents

GM Cragg, PG Grothaus, DJ Newman - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Throughout the ages, Nature has catered to the basic needs of humans, not the least of
which is the provision of medicines for the treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases. Plants …

Emerging trends in self-polishing anti-fouling coatings for marine environment

IC Nwuzor, CI Idumah, SC Nwanonenyi… - Safety in Extreme …, 2021 - Springer
The structural parts of marine architectures permanently submerged in sea-water (such as
underwater pipelines, oil well-heads, platforms, ship-hulls, barges, jetties and so on) are …

Marine drugs from sponge-microbe association—A review

TRA Thomas, DP Kavlekar, PA LokaBharathi - Marine drugs, 2010 - mdpi.com
The subject of this review is the biodiversity of marine sponges and associated microbes
which have been reported to produce therapeutically important compounds, along with the …

Metabolites from symbiotic bacteria

J Piel - Natural product reports, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Metabolites from symbiotic bacteria - Natural Product Reports (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B703499G
Royal Society of Chemistry View PDF VersionPrevious ArticleNext Article DOI: 10.1039/B703499G …

Gut microbiota: a potential new territory for drug targeting

W Jia, H Li, L Zhao, JK Nicholson - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2008 - nature.com
The significant involvement of the gut microbiota in human health and disease suggests that
manipulation of commensal microbial composition through combinations of antibiotics …

Marine natural products

JW Blunt, BR Copp, WP Hu, MHG Munro… - Natural product …, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2007. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2008, 25, 35This review covers the
literature published in 2007 for marine natural products, with 948 citations (627 for the …

Marine pharmacology in 2007–8: Marine compounds with antibacterial, anticoagulant, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antiprotozoal, antituberculosis, and …

AMS Mayer, AD Rodríguez, RGS Berlinck… - … and Physiology Part C …, 2011 - Elsevier
The peer-reviewed marine pharmacology literature in 2007–8 is covered in this review,
which follows a similar format to the previous 1998–2006 reviews of this series. The …

Biotechnological and industrial significance of cyanobacterial secondary metabolites

RP Rastogi, RP Sinha - Biotechnology advances, 2009 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are considered to be a rich source of novel metabolites of a great importance
from a biotechnological and industrial point of view. Some cyanobacterial secondary …