PMID: 9425661Jan 13, 1998Paper

Will natural products remain an important source of drug research for the future?

Current Opinion in Biotechnology
L J Nisbet, M Moore

Abstract

In the highly competitive environment of contemporary pharmaceutical research, natural products provide a unique element of molecular diversity and biological functionality which is indispensable for drug discovery. The emergence of strategies to deliver drug leads from natural products within the same time frame as synthetic chemical screening has eliminated a major limitation of the past. At a more functional level, the application of molecular genetics techniques has permitted the manipulation of biosynthetic pathways for the generation of novel chemical species as well as rendering hitherto uncultivatable microorganisms accessible for secondary metabolite generation. These developments augur well for an industry confronted with the challenge of finding lead compounds directed at the plethora of new targets arising from genomics projects. The exploitation of structural chemical databases comprising a wide variety of chemotypes, in conjunction with databases on target genes and proteins, will facilitate the creation of new chemical entities through computational molecular modelling for pharmacological evaluation.

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