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Drugs from hidden bugs: their discovery via untapped resources.
Lefevre, Fabrice; Robe, Patrick; Jarrin, Cyrille et al.
2008In Research in Microbiology, 159 (3), p. 153-61
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Keywords :
Biological Factors; DNA, Bacterial; Bacteria/classification/genetics/metabolism; Biological Factors/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism/pharmacology; DNA, Bacterial/genetics/metabolism; Drug Evaluation, Preclinical/methods; Genomic Library; Phylogeny; Soil Microbiology
Abstract :
[en] The drug discovery process is a starving machine requiring constant feeding with new chemical compounds. Synthetic or natural scaffolds: what are the best sources? While synthetic molecules are rapidly generated by combinatorial chemistry, they show lower chemical diversity than their natural counterparts. A significant fraction of known natural products is issued from microbial secondary metabolism; however, more than 95% of bacterial organisms remain unexploited as a source of active chemical compounds due to their cultivation difficulties. Recent technological advances in metagenomics have provided reliable access to chemicals of these hidden bugs, thus opening up new opportunities for feeding the machine.
Disciplines :
Biotechnology
Author, co-author :
Lefevre, Fabrice;  LibraGen, 3 rue des Satellites, Bâtiment Canal Biotech I, 31400 Toulouse, France. f.lefevre@libragen.com
Robe, Patrick
Jarrin, Cyrille
GINOLHAC, Aurélien  
Zago, Caroline
Auriol, Daniel
Vogel, Timothy M
Simonet, Pascal
Nalin, Renaud
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Drugs from hidden bugs: their discovery via untapped resources.
Publication date :
April 2008
Journal title :
Research in Microbiology
ISSN :
0923-2508
eISSN :
1769-7123
Publisher :
Elsevier, Nl
Volume :
159
Issue :
3
Pages :
153-61
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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