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ReviewJournal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology2006

From natural products discovery to commercialization: a success story.

Arnold L Demain

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Review in Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Mzabimycins A and B, novel intracellular angucycline antibiotics produced bySaudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Arnold L DemainResearch Institute for Scientists Emeriti (R.I.S.E), Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940, USA. ademain@drew.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In order for a natural product to become a commercial reality, laboratory improvement of its production process is a necessity since titers produced by wild strains could never compete with the power of synthetic chemistry. Strain improvement by mutagenesis has been a major success. It has mainly been carried out by "brute force" screening or selection, but modern genetic technologies have entered the scene in recent years. For every new strain developed genetically, there is further opportunity to raise titers by medium modifications. Of major interest has been the nutritional control by induction, as well as inhibition and repression by sources of carbon, nitrogen, phosphate and end products. Both strain improvement and nutritional modification contribute to the new process, which is then scaled up by biochemical engineers into pilot scale and later into factory size fermentors.

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Biological ProductsDrug IndustryIndustrial MicrobiologyPharmaceutical PreparationsBiological ProductsPharmaceutical Preparations

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