Fungal Jewels: Secondary Metabolites

• Main Author: Ozgur Bayram (auth)
• Other Authors: Nancy Keller (auth), Jonathan Palmer (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); Fungi; mushrooms; Natural Products; silent clusters; Gene clusters; secondary metabolism; Mycotoxins; Molds; antibiotics; genome mining
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Fungal natural products are friends and foes of humans such as deleterious mycotoxins, cytotoxic, carcinogenic compounds or beneficial compounds such as antibiotics, fungicides, insecticides, antiviral and antitumor metabolites. Understanding fungal diversity and estimation of fungal species on our...