Natural Products Biosynthesis: Present and Perspectives
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 880
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural products (secondary metabolites) produced by plants and microorganisms continue to be the most important resources for pharmaceuticals, flavors, dyes, and other valuable substances. Natural products are synthesized, in response to biotic or abiotic stresses, by an array of specialized biosynthetic enzymes. In the early years of natural products research, the focus was mostly on bioactivity-guided isolation and structure determination of natural products and discovery and mechanistic studies of biosynthetic enzymes. Recent advances in genomics and bioinformatics have provided researchers with new omics-based approaches to elucidate biosynthetic pathways and study the evolution of the pathways. This Special Issue aims to showcase the whole spectrum of research on natural products biosynthesis from traditional mechanistic studies to more recent omics studies.
Prof. Dr. Dae-Yeon Suh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products biosynthesis
- secondary metabolism
- biosynthetic pathway
- enzyme mechanism
- synthetic biology
- bioinformatics
- phylogenomics
- genome mining
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