Metabolomics and genomics in natural products research: complementary tools for targeting new chemical entities

LK Caesar, R Montaser, NP Keller… - Natural product reports, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2021 Organisms in nature have evolved into proficient synthetic chemists,
utilizing specialized enzymatic machinery to biosynthesize an inspiring diversity of …

Phytostilbenes as agrochemicals: Biosynthesis, bioactivity, metabolic engineering and biotechnology

P Jeandet, A Vannozzi, E Sobarzo-Sánchez… - Natural product …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1976 to 2020. Although constituting a limited chemical family, phytostilbenes
represent an emblematic group of molecules among natural compounds. Ever since their …

Biosynthetic gene clusters and the evolution of fungal chemodiversity

A Rokas, ME Mead, JL Steenwyk, HA Raja… - Natural product …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2019 Fungi produce a remarkable diversity of secondary metabolites: small,
bioactive molecules not required for growth but which are essential to their ecological …

Till death do us pair: Co-evolution of plant–necrotroph interactions

MC Derbyshire, S Raffaele - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Plants use programmed cell death as a potent defense response against biotrophic
pathogens that require living host cells to thrive. However, cell death can promote infection …

[PDF][PDF] The architecture of metabolism maximizes biosynthetic diversity in the largest class of fungi

E Gluck-Thaler, S Haridas, M Binder… - Molecular Biology …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Ecological diversity in fungi is largely defined by metabolic traits, including the ability to
produce secondary or “specialized” metabolites (SMs) that mediate interactions with other …

Endophyte genomes support greater metabolic gene cluster diversity compared with non-endophytes in Trichoderma

K Scott, Z Konkel, E Gluck-Thaler, GE Valero David… - PloS one, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
Trichoderma is a cosmopolitan genus with diverse lifestyles and nutritional modes, including
mycotrophy, saprophytism, and endophytism. Previous research has reported greater …

Metabolic gene clusters, fungal diversity, and the generation of accessory functions

JC Slot, E Gluck-Thaler - Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Many of life's adaptive accessory functions are encoded in metabolic gene
clusters.•Cluster evolution is intertwined with the processes generating accessory …

Ecological generalism drives hyperdiversity of secondary metabolite gene clusters in xylarialean endophytes

MEE Franco, JH Wisecaver, AE Arnold, YM Ju… - New …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Although secondary metabolites are typically associated with competitive or pathogenic
interactions, the high bioactivity of endophytic fungi in the Xylariales, coupled with their …

Lower Funneling Pathways in Scedosporium Species

W Poirier, K Ravenel, JP Bouchara… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Lignin, a natural polyaromatic macromolecule, represents an essential component of the
lignocellulose biomass. Due to its complexity, the natural degradation of this molecule by …

Phenolic degradation by catechol dioxygenases is associated with pathogenic fungi with a necrotrophic lifestyle in the Ceratocystidaceae

NC Soal, MPA Coetzee, MA van der Nest… - G3, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Fungal species of the Ceratocystidaceae grow on their host plants using a variety of different
lifestyles, from saprophytic to highly pathogenic. Although many genomes of fungi in the …