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ReviewNatural product reports2021

Metabolomics and genomics in natural products research: complementary tools for targeting new chemical entities.

Lindsay K Caesar, Rana Montaser, Nancy P Keller, Neil L Kelleher

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In one paragraph

Review in Natural product reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
67citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 144 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lindsay K CaesarDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. lindsay.caesar@northwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1243-6923
Rana MontaserDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. lindsay.caesar@northwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5811-4137
Nancy P KellerDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Neil L KelleherDepartment of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. lindsay.caesar@northwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8815-3372
Northwestern University · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NUCATS)UL1TR001422 · NCATS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI D'AQUILA, RICHARD · 2015 to 2023
$56.8M
Accessing the Silent Majority: Induction of Gene Expression in Fungal Artificial Chromosomes for Natural Product DiscoveryF32GM134679 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI CAESAR, LINDSAY KATE · 2019 to 2022
$195k
Quantitation of prokaryotic proteome composition and protein turnover under steady-state, slow growth conditionsF32GM126879 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI SALIE, MATTHEW JACOB · 2017 to 2018
$83k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001422NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM126879NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM134679
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Covering: 2010 to 2021Organisms in nature have evolved into proficient synthetic chemists, utilizing specialized enzymatic machinery to biosynthesize an inspiring diversity of secondary metabolites. Often serving to boost competitive advantage for their producers, these secondary metabolites have widespread human impacts as antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, and antifungal drugs. The natural products discovery field has begun a shift away from traditional activity-guided approaches and is beginning to take advantage of increasingly available metabolomics and genomics datasets to explore undiscovered chemical space. Major strides have been made and now enable -omics-informed prioritization of chemical structures for discovery, including the prospect of confidently linking metabolites to their biosynthetic pathways. Over the last decade, more integrated strategies now provide researchers with pipelines for simultaneous identification of expressed secondary metabolites and their biosynthetic machinery. However, continuous collaboration by the natural products community will be required to optimize strategies for effective evaluation of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters to accelerate discovery efforts. Here, we provide an evaluative guide to scientific literature as it relates to studying natural product biosynthesis using genomics, metabolomics, and their integrated datasets. Particular emphasis is placed on the unique insights that can be gained from large-scale integrated strategies, and we provide source organism-specific considerations to evaluate the gaps in our current knowledge.

Indexed as

Biological ProductsBiosynthetic PathwaysDrug DiscoveryGenomicsMetabolomicsMultigene FamilySecondary MetabolismBiological Products

Identifiers

PMID34787623
PMCPMC8691422
OpenAlexW3196903026

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