The evolution of genome mining in microbes–a review

N Ziemert, M Alanjary, T Weber - Natural product reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2006 to 2016 The computational mining of genomes has become an important
part in the discovery of novel natural products as drug leads. Thousands of bacterial …

[HTML][HTML] The secondary metabolite bioinformatics portal: computational tools to facilitate synthetic biology of secondary metabolite production

T Weber, HU Kim - Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 2016 - Elsevier
Natural products are among the most important sources of lead molecules for drug
discovery. With the development of affordable whole-genome sequencing technologies and …

SANDPUMA: ensemble predictions of nonribosomal peptide chemistry reveal biosynthetic diversity across Actinobacteria

MG Chevrette, F Aicheler, O Kohlbacher… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Nonribosomally synthesized peptides (NRPs) are natural products with widespread
applications in medicine and biotechnology. Many algorithms have been developed to …

Structural basis of the nonribosomal codes for nonproteinogenic amino acid selective adenylation enzymes in the biosynthesis of natural products

F Kudo, A Miyanaga, T Eguchi - Journal of Industrial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Nonproteinogenic amino acids are the unique building blocks of nonribosomal peptides
(NRPs) and hybrid nonribosomal peptide–polyketides (NRP–PKs) and contribute to their …

Anabaena/Dolichospermum as the source of lethal microcystin levels responsible for a large cattle toxicosis event

TW Dreher, LP Collart, RS Mueller, KH Halsey… - Toxicon: X, 2019 - Elsevier
Thirty-two 14-month old steers died during a period of four days (19–23 June 2017) after
drinking from Junipers Reservoir (southeastern Oregon, USA) during a cyanobacterial …

Pathway for the biosynthesis of the pigment chrysogine by Penicillium chrysogenum

A Viggiano, O Salo, H Ali, W Szymanski… - Applied and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chrysogine is a yellow pigment produced by Penicillium chrysogenum and other
filamentous fungi. Although the pigment was first isolated in 1973, its biosynthetic pathway …

Non-ribosomal Peptide Synthetase Gene Clusters in the Human Pathogenic Fungus Scedosporium apiospermum

Y Le Govic, N Papon, S Le Gal, JP Bouchara… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Scedosporium species are opportunistic fungi which preferentially affect patients with
underlying conditions such as immunosuppression or cystic fibrosis (CF). While being the …

Identification of Novel Rotihibin Analogues in Streptomyces scabies, Including Discovery of Its Biosynthetic Gene Cluster

S Planckaert, B Deflandre, AM De Vries… - Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Streptomyces scabies is a phytopathogen associated with common scab disease. This is
mainly attributed to its ability to produce the phytotoxin thaxtomin A, the biosynthesis of …

Nonribosomal peptides in fungal cell factories: from genome mining to optimized heterologous production

A Vassaux, L Meunier, M Vandenbol, D Baurain… - Biotechnology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fungi are notoriously prolific producers of secondary metabolites including nonribosomal
peptides (NRPs). The structural complexity of NRPs grants them interesting activities such …

Characterization of a Citrulline 4‐Hydroxylase from Nonribosomal Peptide GE81112 Biosynthesis and Engineering of Its Substrate Specificity for the Chemoenzymatic …

CR Zwick III, MB Sosa, H Renata - … Chemie International Edition, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The GE81112 tetrapeptides are a small family of unusual nonribosomal peptide congeners
with potent inhibitory activity against prokaryotic translation initiation. With the exception of …