Mining the Metabiome: Identifying Novel Natural Products from Microbial Communities

Integrated Approaches for Discovering Novel Drugs From Microbial Natural Products

Historically, nature has provided the source for the majority of the drugs in use today. This owes in large part to their structural complexity and clinical specificity. However, only a small percentage of known microbial secondary metabolites have been tested as natural-product drugs. Natural-product programs need to become more efficient, starting with the collection of environmental samples,...

Mining microbial genomes for new natural products and biosynthetic pathways.

Analyses of microbial genome sequences have revealed numerous examples of 'cryptic' or 'orphan' biosynthetic gene clusters, with the potential to direct the production of novel, structurally complex natural products. This article summarizes the various methods that have been developed for discovering the products of cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters in microbes and gives an account of my group...

Identifying HER2 Inhibitors from Natural Products Database

The relationship between abnormal HER2 expression and cancer is important in cancer therapeutics. Formation and spread of cancer cells may be restricted by inhibiting HER2. We conducted ligand-based and structure-based studies to assess the potency of natural compounds as potential HER2 inhibitors. Multiple linear regression (MLR) and support vector machine (SVM) models were constructed to pred...

marine microbial natural products

Marine Microbial Natural Products

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