Natural products for drug discovery in the 21st century: innovations for novel drug discovery

NE Thomford, DA Senthebane, A Rowe… - International journal of …, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
The therapeutic properties of plants have been recognised since time immemorial. Many
pathological conditions have been treated using plant-derived medicines. These medicines …

The role of natural products as sources of therapeutic agents for innovative drug discovery

K Dzobo - Comprehensive pharmacology, 2022‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Emerging threats to human health require a concerted effort in search of both preventive and
treatment strategies, placing natural products at the center of efforts to obtain new therapies …

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli using synthetic small regulatory RNAs

D Na, SM Yoo, H Chung, H Park, JH Park… - Nature …, 2013‏ - nature.com
Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) regulate gene expression in bacteria. We designed
synthetic sRNAs to identify and modulate the expression of target genes for metabolic …

Cellular stress associated with aneuploidy

J Zhu, HJ Tsai, MR Gordon, R Li - Developmental cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
Aneuploidy, chromosome stoichiometry that deviates from exact multiples of the haploid
compliment of an organism, exists in eukaryotic microbes, several normal human tissues …

Engineering microbial biofuel tolerance and export using efflux pumps

MJ Dunlop, ZY Dossani, HL Szmidt, HC Chu… - Molecular systems …, 2011‏ - embopress.org
Many compounds being considered as candidates for advanced biofuels are toxic to
microorganisms. This introduces an undesirable trade‐off when engineering metabolic …

Chromosomal duplication is a transient evolutionary solution to stress

AH Yona, YS Manor, RH Herbst, GH Romano… - Proceedings of the …, 2012‏ - pnas.org
Aneuploidy, an abnormal number of chromosomes, is a widespread phenomenon found in
unicellulars such as yeast, as well as in plants and in mammalians, especially in cancer …

Automated multiplex genome-scale engineering in yeast

T Si, R Chao, Y Min, Y Wu, W Ren, H Zhao - Nature communications, 2017‏ - nature.com
Genome-scale engineering is indispensable in understanding and engineering
microorganisms, but the current tools are mainly limited to bacterial systems. Here we report …

Most azole resistance mutations in the Candida albicans drug target confer cross-resistance without intrinsic fitness cost

C Bédard, I Gagnon-Arsenault, J Boisvert, S Plante… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Azole antifungals are the main drugs used to treat fungal infections. Amino acid substitutions
in the drug target Erg11 (Cyp51) are a common resistance mechanism in pathogenic yeasts …

Systematic exploration of essential yeast gene function with temperature-sensitive mutants

Z Li, FJ Vizeacoumar, S Bahr, J Li, J Warringer… - Nature …, 2011‏ - nature.com
Conditional temperature-sensitive (ts) mutations are valuable reagents for studying essential
genes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We constructed 787 ts strains, covering 497 …

[HTML][HTML] Proteome-scale movements and compartment connectivity during the eukaryotic cell cycle

A Litsios, BT Grys, OZ Kraus, H Friesen, C Ross… - Cell, 2024‏ - cell.com
Cell cycle progression relies on coordinated changes in the composition and subcellular
localization of the proteome. By applying two distinct convolutional neural networks on …