NextGen microbial natural products discovery.
NextGen microbial natural products discovery.
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10.1111/1751-7915.12184
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发表时间:
2015-01
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
Schmidt-Dannert C
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Schmidt-Dannert C
Small-molecule secondary metabolites isolated from microorganisms and plants provide the chemical scaffolds of a large fraction of today’s pharmaceuticals. Evolutionary forces shaped the molecular complexity of these natural products that contribute to the exquisite binding of these compounds to biological targets. Starting with the discovery of penicillin by Fleming, we have seen a rapid increase in the discovery and production of natural products and derivatives thereof as antibiotics and other drugs. But once the ‘easy to access’ bioactive compounds have been isolated, the drug discovery pipeline slowed down beginning in the 1990s. Pharmaceutical companies turned away from natural products as screening programmes led to the rediscovery of known structures and development of structurally complex natural products into drugs using synthetic methods proved to be challenging and too expensive if no reliable biological sources were available. Considering the urgent need for the development of new drugs to combat multidrug-resistant pathogens and overcome long-term side-effects and/or reduction in effectiveness of current drugs, unlocking nature’s treasure trough of smallmolecule chemodiversity will be crucial for next-generation drug development (Gerwick and Moore, 2012; Basmadjian et al., 2014; Genilloud, 2014). Driven by advances in sequencing, gene synthesis, bioinformatics and metabolomics, the natural products discovery process is beginning to undergo a major transformation–away from the tedious isolation, screening and dereplication process to in silico-based bioprospecting approaches that seek to eventually transform genomic information directly into biosynthetic outputs (Lewis, 2013; Deane and Mitchell, 2014). The explosion in the number of available microbial genome sequences has given us a glance at the hidden natural product biosynthetic capacity of these organisms. Based on known sequence information for enzymes involved in synthesizing, eg the scaffolds of bioactive polyketides, non-ribosomal peptides or terpenes, numerous gene clusters (fungi) and operons (bacteria) can be identified in microbial genomes that are silent and for which no secondary metabolite products have been identified. This also includes many well-studied natural products producers such as Streptomyces and Aspergillus strains that express only a subset of their secondary metabolome under typical laboratory growth conditions (Brakhage, 2013; Doroghazi and Metcalf, 2013; Lim and Keller, 2014;
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影响因子:
3.4
作者:
Jensen, Paul R.;Chavarria, Krystle L.;Fenical, William;Moore, Bradley S.;Ziemert, Nadine
通讯作者:
Ziemert, Nadine
影响因子:
11.9
作者:
Quin MB;Flynn CM;Schmidt-Dannert C
通讯作者:
Schmidt-Dannert C
影响因子:
4.4
作者:
Doroghazi JR;Metcalf WW
通讯作者:
Metcalf WW
影响因子:
5.5
作者:
Basmadjian C;Zhao Q;Bentouhami E;Djehal A;Nebigil CG;Johnson RA;Serova M;de Gramont A;Faivre S;Raymond E;Désaubry LG
通讯作者:
Désaubry LG
影响因子:
--
作者:
Gerwick WH;Moore BS
通讯作者:
Moore BS