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ReviewMicroorganisms2026

From Discovery to Manufacturing: A Quantitative Review of Phosphonates and Strategies for High-Titer Production.

Xinping Zhong, Biwei Song, Lixin Zhang, Tom Hsiang, Liming Ouyang, Jingyu Zhang

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Review in Microorganisms, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Xinping ZhongState Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
Biwei SongState Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
Lixin ZhangState Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
Tom HsiangSchool of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9549-1847
Liming OuyangState Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3507-7895
Jingyu ZhangState Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0188-5018

Funding

International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natura Science Foundation of China W2412094Key Research & Development Program of Shandong Province 2022SFGC0104National Key Research and Development Program of China 2022YFC2105400National Natural Science Foundation of China 32571667Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai 24ZR1417000Open Project Funding of the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, the 111 Project B18022Shanghai Excellent Young Academic Leader Program of Eastern Talent Plan QNKJ2025047Shanghai Sci-Tech Inno Center for Infection & Immunity SSIII-2024A0302
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phosphonate natural products, characterized by a stable carbon-phosphorus (C-P) bond, represent a distinctive class of natural products with broad bioactivities and diverse applications in medicine and agriculture. Despite their potential, the field has lacked a systematic, quantitatively informed synthesis linking discovery trends to biological function and scalable production. In this review, we curate 71 reports of phosphonate natural products between 1959 and the present, primarily from bacterial sources, and analyze them across discovery modalities, bioactivity profiles, and producer taxonomy. We further summarize structure-activity relationships and consolidate engineering strategies-including metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and biocatalytic cascades-employed to enhance phosphonate yields. Based on these analyses, we propose practical directions to accelerate the discovery of novel phosphonates, and improve their accessibility through advances in production and isolation technologies.

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genome miningmicroorganismsphosphonatesproduction improvement

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PMID42354795
PMCPMC13302981

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