Recent advances in the discovery, biosynthesis, and therapeutic potential of isocoumarins derived from fungi: a comprehensive update
Microorganisms still remain the main hotspots in the global drug discovery avenue. In particular, fungi are highly prolific producers of vast structurally diverse specialized secondary metabolites, which have displayed a myriad of biomedical potentials. Intriguingly, isocoumarins is one distinctive...
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| Published in | RSC advances Vol. 13; no. 12; pp. 849 - 889 |
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| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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England
Royal Society of Chemistry
08.03.2023
The Royal Society of Chemistry |
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| Summary: | Microorganisms still remain the main hotspots in the global drug discovery avenue. In particular, fungi are highly prolific producers of vast structurally diverse specialized secondary metabolites, which have displayed a myriad of biomedical potentials. Intriguingly, isocoumarins is one distinctive class of fungal natural products polyketides, which demonstrated numerous remarkable biological and pharmacological activities. This review article provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art over the period 2000-2022 about the discovery, isolation, classifications, and therapeutic potentials of isocoumarins exclusively reported from fungi. Indeed, a comprehensive list of
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structurally diverse isocoumarins were documented and classified according to their fungal sources [16 order/28 family/55 genera] where they have been originally discovered along with their reported pharmacological activities wherever applicable. Also, recent insights around their proposed and experimentally proven biosynthetic pathways are also briefly discussed.
This review article provides an intensive state-of-the-art over the period 2000-2022 centred around the discovery, classifications, biosynthetic pathways and therapeutic potentialities of 351 structurally diverse fungal containing-isocoumarins. |
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| Bibliography: | Dr Mariam I. Gamal El-Din holds a BSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences (excellent with honors) from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (July 2008). She was awarded her MSc degree (August 2013) and her PhD degree (February 2021) in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. She is currently an assistant professor and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Her ongoing research focuses on the field of drug discovery from natural sources, medicinal chemistry, and plant metabolomics. Dr Mohamed Tammam pursued his BSc degree in soil and water science in 2008 (Excellent with honors) at Fayoum University, Egypt, where he also received his MSc degree in biochemistry & chemistry of natural products in 2013. Later, he received his PhD degree in Pharmacy (Excellent) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), focused on the isolation and structure elucidation of secondary metabolites from marine organisms of the Red Sea under the joint mentorship of Prof. Vassilios Roussis and Prof. Efstathia Ioannou in 2020. After completing his PhD in Greece, he was promoted to an assistant professorship at the Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture Fayoum University, Egypt. Subsequently, since May 2021 to date, he is conducting his first postdoctoral research focusing on the isolation and structure elucidation of secondary metabolites from marine organisms at the Section of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products, Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, (NKUA) with Prof. Vassilios Roussis and Prof. Efstathia Ioannou. His research interests cover bioactive natural products from marine macro and microorganisms. Dr Amr El-Demerdash received his BSc degree (excellent with honors) in chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences, Mansoura University (Egypt) in 2004 and his MSc degree in organic chemistry (natural product chemistry) from the same university in 2009, before getting his PhD in organic chemistry (discovery of pharmacologically active marine natural products and biomimetic total synthesis) from the prestigious French chemical institution CNRS-ICSN (Institute of Natural Products' Chemistry), University of Paris-Saclay (France), under the supervision of Dr Ali Al-Mourabit, in May 2016. After pursuing his PhD in France, Dr El-Demerdash was affiliated to Mansoura University (Egypt) as an assistant professor while also conducting his first postdoctoral training (October 2017 to March 2019) within the fungal natural products chemistry group, CNRS/MNHN, Sorbonne Universities (France). Since April 2019 to date, Dr El-Demerdash is conducting his second postdoctoral training, working on the biosynthesis of pharmacologically active plant natural products (Professor Anne Osbourn's group) at the John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom. Later, in December 2021, Dr El-Demerdash was promoted to an associate professorship in organic and natural products chemistry at Mansoura University, Egypt. Dr El-Demerdash's work covers natural products chemistry-based drug discovery including isolation, structure elucidation, biomimetic synthesis, and biosynthesis. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ra08245d Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI Dr Amira Abood received her BSc degree (excellent with honors) from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University (Egypt) in 2004 and her MSc degree in Microbiology & Biotechnology from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University in 2010, before getting her PhD in Microbiology & Biotechnology (Investigation of genes and enzymes involved in oxidative rearrangements in fungi) from Bristol University (UK) under the supervision of Prof. Russell. J. Cox in October 2015. After pursuing her PhD in UK, Dr Abood succeeded in getting one of the prestigious fellowships, Royal Society Fellowship (Newton International fellowship), to work with Prof. Neil Bruce at the University of York, UK (2018-2021), working with enzymes involved in lignin degradation and biorefinery applications. She then moved to the University of Kent working on r-SAM dependent enzymes involved in several biosynthetic pathways. Dr Abood is affiliated to National Research Centre (Egypt) and has been promoted to an associate professor while also conducting her postdoctoral position (April 2022). ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-3 content type line 23 ObjectType-Review-1 |
| ISSN: | 2046-2069 2046-2069 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d2ra08245d |