Biosynthesis of fungal terpenoids

P Luo, JH Huang, JM Lv, GQ Wang, D Hu… - Natural Product …, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to August 2023 Terpenoids, which are widely distributed in animals, plants,
and microorganisms, are a large group of natural products with diverse structures and …

The expanded CRISPR toolbox for constructing microbial cell factories

Y Teng, T Jiang, Y Yan - Trends in Biotechnology, 2024‏ - cell.com
Microbial cell factories (MCFs) convert low-cost carbon sources into valuable compounds.
The CRISPR/Cas9 system has revolutionized MCF construction as a remarkable genome …

Efficient exploration of terpenoid biosynthetic gene clusters in filamentous fungi

Y Yuan, S Cheng, G Bian, P Yan, Z Ma, W Dai… - Nature Catalysis, 2022‏ - nature.com
Terpenoids, critical components of human medicine, are the largest family of natural
products. Fungi are an important source of terpenoids, but many of the corresponding …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to establish the link between biosynthetic gene clusters and secondary metabolites

I Kjærbølling, UH Mortensen, T Vesth… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Filamentous fungi produce a vast number of bioactive secondary metabolites (SMs), some of
which have found applications in the pharmaceutical industry including as antibiotics and …

Biosynthesis of Enfumafungin-type Antibiotic Reveals an Unusual Enzymatic Fusion Pattern and Unprecedented C–C Bond Cleavage

ZQ Cao, GQ Wang, R Luo, YH Gao, JM Lv… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Enfumafungin-type antibiotics, represented by enfumafungin and fuscoatroside, belong to a
distinct group of triterpenoids derived from fungi. These compounds exhibit significant …

Secondary metabolite biosynthetic diversity in the fungal family Hypoxylaceae and Xylaria hypoxylon

E Kuhnert, JC Navarro-Muñoz, K Becker… - Studies in …, 2021‏ - ingentaconnect.com
To date little is known about the genetic background that drives the production and
diversification of secondary metabolites in the Hypoxylaceae. With the recent availability of …

Total synthesis of viridin and viridiol

Y Ji, Z **n, H He, S Gao - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
The asymmetric total synthesis of (−)-viridin and (−)-viridiol, antifungal metabolites, was
achieved in 17 and 18 steps from a commercially available starting material. An …

Anticancer fungal natural products: Mechanisms of action and biosynthesis

S Yuan, JV Gopal, S Ren, L Chen, L Liu… - European Journal of …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Many fungal metabolites show promising anticancer properties both in vitro and in animal
models, and some synthetic analogs of those metabolites have progressed into clinical …

Fungal dirigent protein controls the stereoselectivity of multicopper oxidase-catalyzed phenol coupling in viriditoxin biosynthesis

J Hu, H Li, YH Chooi - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Paecilomyces variotii produces the antibacterial and cytotoxic (M)-viriditoxin (1) together
with a trace amount of its atropisomer (P)-viriditoxin 1′. Elucidation of the biosynthesis by …

Reconstitution of biosynthetic machinery of fungal natural products in heterologous hosts

H Oikawa - Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Ascomycota and basidiomycota fungi are prolific sources of biologically active natural
products. Recent genomic data and bioinformatic analysis indicate that fungi possess a …