Strategies to access biosynthetic novelty in bacterial genomes for drug discovery

F Hemmerling, J Piel - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Bacteria provide a rich source of natural products with potential therapeutic applications,
such as novel antibiotic classes or anticancer drugs. Bioactivity-guided screening of …

Bioactive metabolites from terrestrial and marine actinomycetes

C Ngamcharungchit, N Chaimusik, W Panbangred… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Actinomycetes inhabit both terrestrial and marine ecosystems and are highly proficient in
producing a wide range of natural products with diverse biological functions, including …

Concepts and methods to access novel antibiotics from actinomycetes

JJ Hug, CD Bader, M Remškar, K Cirnski, R Müller - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Actinomycetes have been proven to be an excellent source of secondary metabolites for
more than half a century. Exhibiting various bioactivities, they provide valuable approved …

Defense contracts: molecular protection in insect-microbe symbioses

EB Van Arnam, CR Currie, J Clardy - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Insects cope with environmental threats using a broad array of strategies. A key strategy,
widespread among insects but unappreciated until recently, is the use of molecular …

Bacteria from the Amycolatopsis genus associated with a toxic bird secrete protective secondary metabolites

E Seibel, S Um, KH Bodawatta, AJ Komor… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Uropygial gland secretions of birds consist of host and bacteria derived compounds and
play a major sanitary and feather-protective role. Here we report on our microbiome studies …

The secondary metabolites of rare actinomycetes: chemistry and bioactivity

T Ding, LJ Yang, WD Zhang, YH Shen - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Actinomycetes are outstanding and fascinating sources of potent bioactive compounds,
particularly antibiotics. In recent years, rare actinomycetes have had an increasingly …

Comparative genomics reveals phylogenetic distribution patterns of secondary metabolites in Amycolatopsis species

M Adamek, M Alanjary, H Sales-Ortells, M Goodfellow… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Genome mining tools have enabled us to predict biosynthetic gene clusters that
might encode compounds with valuable functions for industrial and medical applications …

The chemical ecology of the fungus-farming termite symbiosis

S Schmidt, S Kildgaard, H Guo… - Natural Product …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: September 1972 to December 2020 Explorations of complex symbioses have
often elucidated a plethora of previously undescribed chemical compounds that may serve …

Recent progress of antibacterial natural products: Future antibiotics candidates

J Dai, R Han, Y Xu, N Li, J Wang, W Dan - Bioorganic chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
The discovery of novel antibacterial molecules plays a key role in solving the current
antibiotic crisis issue. Natural products have long been an important source of drug …

Chemical mediators at the bacterial-fungal interface

K Scherlach, C Hertweck - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Interactions among microbes are key drivers of evolutionary progress and constantly shape
ecological niches. Microorganisms rely on chemical communication to interact with each …