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ReviewNatural product reports2016

Modern mass spectrometry for synthetic biology and structure-based discovery of natural products.

Matthew T Henke, Neil L Kelleher

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Review in Natural product reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Dual-functionMicrobiology spectrum · 2026
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  3. Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance: Innovative Drugs in Antibacterial Research.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  5. Discovering New Natural Products Using Metabolomics-Based Approaches.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023
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  7. Rapid Mining of NovelMarine drugs · 2022
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  9. Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew T HenkeDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. n-kelleher@northwestern.edu.
Neil L Kelleher
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniela E Matei · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
Mass Spectrometric Studies of Thiotemplate BiosynthesisR01AT009143 · NCCIH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI NEIL L KELLEHER, NANCY P KELLER · 2016 to 2026
$4.2M
Mass Spectrometric Studies of Thiotemplate BiosynthesisR01GM067725 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI KELLEHER, NEIL L · 2003 to 2013
$3.0M
NCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT009143NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067725
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Covering: up to 2016In this highlight, we describe the current landscape for dereplication and discovery of natural products based on the measurement of the intact mass by LC-MS. Often it is assumed that because better mass accuracy (provided by higher resolution mass spectrometers) is necessary for absolute chemical formula determination (≤1 part-per-million), that it is also necessary for dereplication of natural products. However, the average ability to dereplicate tapers off at ∼10 ppm, with modest improvement gained from better mass accuracy when querying focused databases of natural products. We also highlight some recent examples of how these platforms are applied to synthetic biology, and recent methods for dereplication and correlation of substructures using tandem MS data. We also offer this highlight to serve as a brief primer for those entering the field of mass spectrometry-based natural products discovery.

Indexed as

Synthetic BiologyBiological ProductsChromatography, LiquidDatabases, FactualMass SpectrometryMolecular StructureMolecular WeightBiological Products

Identifiers

PMID27376415
PMCPMC4981503
OpenAlexW2469111559

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