Distribution, biosynthesis, and biological activity of phenylphenalenone-type compounds derived from the family of plants, Haemodoraceae.

abstract：:The mangrove flora is a diverse group of salt-tolerant plants growing in tropical and subtropical intertidal estuarine zones. This review summarizes the source, chemistry and bioactivities of natural products from true mangrove species worldwide. It includes 349 metabolites and 150 references. The molecular phylogeny ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Wu J,Xiao Q,Xu J,Li MY,Pan JY,Yang MH

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the isolation, structure determination, synthesis, chemical transformations and biological activity of indolizidine and quinolizidine alkaloids. Included in the review are the hydroxylated indolizidines lentiginosine, swainsonine, castanospermine and their analogues; alkaloids from animal sources, i...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Michael JP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: up to the end of 2015.Peptides are naturally occurring compounds that play an important role in all living systems and are responsible for a range of essential functions. Peptide receptors have been implicated in disease states such as oncology, metabolic disorders and cardiovascular disease. Therefore, natu...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Charron CL,Hickey JL,Nsiama TK,Cruickshank DR,Turnbull WL,Luyt LG

更新日期：2016-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligo-, polysaccharides, and glycoconjugates are a relevant part of the bioactive components of the natural products exploited in therapeutics, diagnostics, food additives, and biomaterials. Glycans are directly involved in important biological processes, such as immunostimulation, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Cobucci-Ponzano B,Moracci M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: 2008 to 2016The total synthesis of natural products and their derivatives continues to inspire organic chemists to identify and test new synthetic strategies and develop and explore novel methodology. In recent years, visible light photoredox catalysis has risen to prominence as a powerful technology that en...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Nicholls TP,Leonori D,Bissember AC

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products and their derivatives are mainstays of our antibiotic drugs, but they are increasingly in peril. The combination of widespread multidrug resistance in once susceptible bacterial pathogens, disenchantment with natural products as sources of new drugs, lack of success using synthetic compounds and targe...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Wright GD

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the morphology, isolation, total synthesis and biological activity of the naturally occurring alkaloids isolated from the Amaryllidaceae family, as well as the structurally related Sceletium alkaloids. ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Jin Z

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel organic reactions drive the advance of chemical synthesis in the same way that enabling technologies drive new scientific discoveries. One area of organic methodology that has undergone significant growth during the last decade is that of homogeneous gold-catalyzed transformations. This trend has been further en...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Zhang Y,Luo T,Yang Z

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: up to 2018 Ovothiols are sulfur-containing natural products biosynthesized by marine invertebrates, microalgae, and bacteria. These compounds are characterized by unique chemical properties suggestive of numerous cellular functions. For example, ovothiols may be cytoprotectants against oxidative stress, serv...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Castellano I,Seebeck FP

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering up to December 2013. Oligosaccharide natural products target a wide spectrum of biological processes including disruption of cell wall biosynthesis, interference of bacterial translation, and inhibition of human α-amylase. Correspondingly, oligosaccharides possess the potential for development as treatments o...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： McCranie EK,Bachmann BO

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: 1972 to 2011. This review covers the literature of prenylated quinone, hydroquinone and naphthoquinone marine natural products with reported cytotoxic and/or antioxidant properties. The structures, biological activity and, where applicable, the syntheses of 159 cytotoxic/antioxidant compounds, isolated from ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Sunassee SN,Davies-Coleman MT

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article reviews the progress in the chemistry of the steroids that was published between January and December, 2001. The reactions and partial syntheses of estrogens, androgens, pregnanes, cholic acid derivatives, cholestanes and vitamin D analogues are covered. There are 184 references. ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Hanson JR

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the isolation, structural determination, synthesis and chemical and microbiological transformations of natural sesquiterpenoids. The literature from January to December 2003 is reviewed, and 389 references are cited. ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Fraga BM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: Early 2008 until the end of 2019Microorganisms which survive (extreme-tolerant) or even prefer (extremophilic) living at the limits of pH, temperature, salinity and pressure found on earth have proven to be a rich source of novel structures. In this update we summarise the wide variety of new molecules which...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Wilson ZE,Brimble MA

更新日期：2020-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This review deals with the isolation and structure elucidation of meroterpenoids (natural products of mixed biosynthetic origin which are partially derived from terpenoids) from higher and lower fungi, and discusses biosynthetic studies and biological activities as appropriate. It describes 333 fungal meroterpenoids a...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Geris R,Simpson TJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the literature on simple indole alkaloids and those with a nonrearranged monoterpenoid unit from the beginning of 2012 up to the end of 2013, which includes newly isolated alkaloids, structure determinations, total syntheses and biological activities. ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Ishikura M,Abe T,Choshi T,Hibino S

更新日期：2015-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: 2000 up to 2020 Few classes of natural products have inspired as many chemists and biologists as have the iboga alkaloids. This family of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids includes the anti-addictive compound ibogaine as well as catharanthine, a precursor to the chemotherapeutic vinblastine. Despite being known...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Iyer RN,Favela D,Zhang G,Olson DE

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This Highlight describes synthetic methods that have enabled new strategic approaches to the synthesis of natural product targets as well as libraries of compounds for unbiased screening experiments. The structural differences of the compounds produced by both efforts are illustrated. ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Shaw JT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aristolactams, having a phenanthrene chromophore are a small group of compounds mainly found in the Aristolochiaceae together with the aristolochic acids and 4,5-dioxoaporphines. In this report, these three important classes of natural products are reviewed and classified on the basis of their oxygenation pattern. In ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Kumar V,Poonam,Prasad AK,Parmar VS

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytotoxic compounds produced by plant pathogens are often crucial determinants of plant disease. Knowledge of them provides insights into disease syndromes and may be exploited by conventional breeding and biotechnology to obtain resistant crops. ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Strange RN

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: 2014-2019We review recent progress on natural products that target cytoskeletal components, including microtubules, actin, intermediate filaments, and septins and highlight their demonstrated and potential utility in the treatment of human disease. The anticancer efficacy of microtubule targeted agents ident...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Risinger AL,Du L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: 1947-early 2017, particularly from 2005-early 2017The rise of bacterial pathogens with acquired resistance to almost all available antibiotics is becoming a serious public health issue. Polymyxins, antibiotics that were mostly abandoned a few decades ago because of toxicity concerns, are ultimately considere...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Rabanal F,Cajal Y

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact chemosensation, or tasting, is a complex process governed by nonvolatile phytochemicals that tell host-seeking insects whether they should accept or reject a plant. During this process, insect gustatory receptors (GRs) contribute to deciphering a host plant's metabolic code. GRs recognise many different classe...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Pentzold S,Burse A,Boland W

更新日期：2017-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the isolation and structure determination of triterpenoids reported during 2012 including squalene derivatives, lanostanes, holostanes, cycloartanes, cucurbitanes, dammaranes, euphanes, tirucallanes, tetranortriterpenoids, quassinoids, lupanes, oleananes, friedelanes, ursanes, hopanes, serratanes, i...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Hill RA,Connolly JD

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature has yielded numerous classes of chemically distinct microtubule stabilizers. Several of these, including paclitaxel (Taxol) and docetaxel (Taxotere), are important drugs used in the treatment of cancer. New microtubule stabilizers and novel formulations of these agents continue to provide advances in cancer the...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Rohena CC,Mooberry SL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blue flower colors are primarily due to anthocyanin, a flavonoid pigment. Anthocyanin itself is purple in neutral aqueous solutions, ans its color is very unstable and quickly fades. Therefore, the mechanism of blue color development in living flower petals is one of the most intriguing problems in natural product che...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Yoshida K,Mori M,Kondo T

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: up to early 2018 The Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases (NRPSs) and Polyketide Synthases (PKSs) are families of modular enzymes that produce a tremendous diversity of natural products, with antibacterial, antifungal, immunosuppressive, and anticancer activities. Both enzymes utilize a fascinating modular archi...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Gulick AM,Aldrich CC

更新日期：2018-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article focuses on how nature sometimes solves the same problem in the biosynthesis of small molecules but using very different approaches. Four examples, involving isopentenyl diphosphate, menaquinone, lysine, and aromatic polyketides, are highlighted that represent different strategies in convergent meta...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Dairi T,Kuzuyama T,Nishiyama M,Fujii I

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review covers the recent marine chemical ecology literature for benthic cyanobacteria, macroalgae, sponges, octocorals, molluscs, other benthic invertebrates, fish and seabirds. ...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Paul VJ,Ritson-Williams R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covering: up to 2019This review covers the current status of the quantum mechanical prediction of chiroptical properties, such as electronic CD and optical rotation, as needed for stereochemical assignments in new natural products. The reliability of the prediction of chiroptical properties is steadily increasing, wit...

journal_title：Natural product reports

authors： Grauso L,Teta R,Esposito G,Menna M,Mangoni A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00