Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Natural product fragment combination to performance-diverse pseudo-natural products

  • Michael Grigalunas,
  • Annina Burhop,
  • Sarah Zinken,
  • Axel Pahl,
  • José-Manuel Gally,
  • Niklas Wild,
  • Yannik Mantel,
  • Sonja Sievers,
  • Daniel J. Foley,
  • Rebecca Scheel,
  • Carsten Strohmann,
  • Andrey P. Antonchick,
  • Herbert Waldmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22174-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Natural products inspire the development of pseudo-natural products through combinations of fragments of compound classes that are chemically and biologically distinct. Here, the authors report a library of 244 pseudo-natural products, evaluate them in the cell painting essays and identify the phenotypic role of individual fragments.