Natural Product Reports

Papers
(The median citation count of Natural Product Reports is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Privileged natural product compound classes for anti-inflammatory drug development209
Recent advances in the synthesis of insect pheromones: an overview from 2013 to 2022201
The molecular complexity of terpene biosynthesis in red algae: current state and future perspectives152
Syntheses of furan natural products142
Ryanodane diterpenes: occurrence, structural diversity, bioactivities, and synthesis109
Estimating the extent of adulteration of the popular herbs black cohosh, echinacea, elder berry, ginkgo, and turmeric – its challenges and limitations103
Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites97
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Photo-/electro-chemical catalysis: a promising toolkit for late-stage functionalization of alkene-containing natural products72
The pearl jubilee of microcin J25: thirty years of research on an exceptional lasso peptide70
Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines67
Unusually cyclized triterpenoids: occurrence, biosynthesis and chemical synthesis64
Recent advances in the total synthesis of galantamine, a natural medicine for Alzheimer's disease61
Purine nucleoside antibiotics: recent synthetic advances harnessing chemistry and biology59
Medicinal plant resin natural products: structural diversity and biological activities59
Introduction to engineering the biosynthesis of fungal natural products57
Streptomyces cell-free systems for natural product discovery and engineering55
Recent advances in the biosynthetic studies of bacterial organoarsenic natural products52
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Charting the path for l -tyrosine derivatives: from engineering strategies to microbial cell factories49
Natural nematicidal metabolites and advances in their biocontrol capacity on plant parasitic nematodes49
Highlights of cyanobacterial metabolites reported between 2021–202448
Marine indole alkaloid diversity and bioactivity. What do we know and what are we missing?47
Prenylated bacterial natural products: occurrence, chemical diversity, biosynthesis and bioactivity47
Chemistry, bioactivity, biosynthesis, and total synthesis of stemmadenine alkaloids46
Maleidride biosynthesis – construction of dimeric anhydrides – more than just heads or tails44
Marine natural products44
Enzymatic ester bond formation strategies in fungal macrolide skeletons43
Streptomyces as a versatile host platform for heterologous production of microbial natural products43
Toward a unified pipeline for natural product discovery: tools and strategies for NRPS and PKS pathway exploration and engineering43
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Synthetic-bioinformatic natural product-inspired peptides40
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Editorial: Microbial host and metabolic engineering for natural product discovery and production39
The role ofCaenorhabditis elegansin the discovery of natural products for healthy aging38
Biosynthesis of fungal terpenoids38
Subterranean marvels: microbial communities in caves and underground mines and their promise for natural product discovery36
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Enzymatic crosslinking of histidine side chains in peptide natural products34
Illuminating the dark space of bioactive peptides with mass spectrometry34
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Technological developments driving industrial natural product discovery34
Labelling studies in the biosynthesis of polyketides and non-ribosomal peptides34
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Brief overview of recently reported misassigned natural products and their in silico revisions enabled by DU8ML, a machine learning-augmented DFT computa32
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Advances in the total synthesis of bis- and tris-indole alkaloids containing N-heterocyclic linker moieties31
Terpene synthases and pathways in animals: enzymology and structural evolution in the biosynthesis of volatile infochemicals31
Natural products modulating interleukin-mediated pathways for anti-allergic and immunomodulatory effects31
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[2 + 2]-Cycloaddition-derived cyclobutane natural products: structural diversity, sources, bioactivities, and biomimetic syntheses31
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Metabolism and bioavailability aspects of natural products of plant origin using mass spectrometry-based and metabolomic approaches26
AI and mechanistic modeling for characterizing biosynthetic pathways of natural products25
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Biosynthesis of indole diterpenes: a reconstitution approach in a heterologous host25
Structure-based engineering of α-ketoglutarate dependent oxygenases in fungal meroterpenoid biosynthesis24
Recent advances in oxidative phenol coupling for the total synthesis of natural products24
Biosynthesis of invertebrate-derived natural products: an uncharted territory24
Chemistry, biosynthesis and biology of floral volatiles: roles in pollination and other functions24
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Semi-synthesis in the exploration of opioid-targeting natural products23
The shikimate pathway: gateway to metabolic diversity23
Production of high molecular-ordered stilbene oligomers for the study of their biological activity: total synthesis, bio-catalyzed synthesis and production by plant systems23
Engineering the biosynthesis of fungal nonribosomal peptides23
Microbial engineering for natural and unnatural glycosaminoglycans biosynthesis23
Vallesamidine and schizozygane alkaloids: rearranged monoterpene indole alkaloids and synthetic endeavours22
Structural enzymology of iterative type I polyketide synthases: various routes to catalytic programming22
Anthrol reductases: discovery, role in biosynthesis and applications in natural product syntheses21
Connecting metabolome and phenotype: recent advances in functional metabolomics tools for the identification of bioactive natural products21
Modular polyketide synthase-derived insecticidal agents: from biosynthesis and metabolic engineering to combinatorial biosynthesis for their production21
Bacterial cyclophane-containing RiPPs from radical SAM enzymes21
Natural products as anthelmintics: safeguarding animal health20
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Unlocking marine treasures: isolation and mining strategies of natural products from sponge-associated bacteria19
The action of phytochemicals in biofilm control19
Strategies and tactics for the synthesis of lipid I and II and shortened analogues: functional building blocks of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis19
Analytical methods for the analysis of volatile natural products19
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Advances, opportunities, and challenges in methods for interrogating the structure activity relationships of natural products18
Therapeutic vulnerabilities of cancer stem cells and effects of natural products18
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Recent advances in total synthesis of protoberberine and chiral tetrahydroberberine alkaloids18
Warfare under the waves: a review of bacteria-derived algaecidal natural products17
S -Adenosylmethionine: considerations on its role in the origin and evolution of life17
The chemical and biological properties of natural resorcylic acid lactones17
Unlocking the metabolic potential of endophytic fungi through epigenetics: a paradigm shift for natural product discovery and plant–microbe interactions17
Opportunities and challenges of RiPP-based therapeutics17
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The development of Burkholderia bacteria as heterologous hosts15
Intramolecular cycloaddition of nitrones in total synthesis of natural products15
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Recent insights into the biosynthesis and biological activities of the peptide-derived redox cofactor mycofactocin15
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40 Years of Natural Product Reports15
A novel class of oligoarylamide antibiotics defined by albicidins and cystobactamids15
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Discovery and development of botanical natural products and their analogues as therapeutics for ovarian cancer14
Rotenoid diversity, distribution and evolution in plant lineages14
The bisintercalator family of nonribosomal peptides: structural diversity and biosynthetic mechanism14
Specialized metabolite modifications in Brassicaceae seeds and plants: diversity, functions and related enzymes14
Correction: Biosynthesis, biological activities, and structure–activity relationships of decalin-containing tetramic acid derivatives isolated from fungi14
Recent advances in the application of the isoxazoline route to aldols in the synthesis of natural products14
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in terrestrial extreme environments: implications for life detection beyond Earth14
Structural insights into the diverse prenylating capabilities of DMATS prenyltransferases14
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Biosynthesis of biologically active terpenoids in the mint family (Lamiaceae)13
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Cephalotane diterpenoids: structural diversity, biological activity, biosynthetic proposal, and chemical synthesis13
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Trends in metabolite discovery from Actinomycetes12
Embracing the era of antimicrobial peptides with marine organisms12
Chemistry and bioactivity of lindenane sesquiterpenoids and their oligomers12
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Highlights of biosynthetic enzymes and natural products from symbiotic cyanobacteria12
Introduction to volatile natural products12
Engineering fungal terpene biosynthesis12
Natural products of pentacyclic triterpenoids: from discovery to heterologous biosynthesis11
Advances in the discovery and study of Trichoderma natural products for biological control applications11
Recent advances in discovery and biosynthesis of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPP)-derived lipopeptides11
Natural product inspired antibiotics approved for human use – 1943 to 202511
Recent advances in the discovery of plant-derived antimicrobial natural products to combat antimicrobial resistant pathogens: insights from 2018–202211
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The Kornblum DeLaMare rearrangement in natural product synthesis: 25 years of innovation10
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Cardiac glycosides: structural diversity, chemical ecology, bioactivity, and artificial synthesis10
Accelerating enzyme discovery and engineering with high-throughput screening9
Comparing total chemical synthesis and total biosynthesis routes to fungal specialized metabolites9
Progress, challenges, and opportunities in the field of biosynthetic reactions involving ambimodal transition states8
Extraction techniques for bioactive compounds of cannabis8
Organic synthesis in the study of terpene-derived oxidation products in the atmosphere8
Natural products influence bacteriophage infectivity8
Chemical diversity of cyanobacterial natural products8
Engineering class I terpene synthases for skeletal diversity: strategies and applications8
Meroterpenoids? A historical and critical review of this biogenetic determinant7
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Fe(ii) and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases for natural product synthesis: molecular insights into reaction diversity7
Chemistry and biology of natural stilbenes: an update7
Unpacking policy developments in marine natural product research: a scientist's guide to DSI and BBNJ7
Scaling up for success: from bioactive natural products to new medicines7
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Finding activity through rigidity: syntheses of natural products containing tricyclic bridgehead carbon centers7
The fungal natural product class of the sorbicillinoids: structures, bioactivities, biosynthesis, and synthesis6
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Halogenases and dehalogenases: mechanisms, engineering, and applications6
Scalemic natural products6
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Natural products targeting the metabolism of amino acids: from discovery to synthetic development5
S-Adenosylmethionine: more than just a methyl donor5
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Bacterial polyynes uncovered: a journey through their bioactive properties, biosynthetic mechanisms, and sustainable production strategies5
Unveiling Amaryllidaceae alkaloids: from biosynthesis to antiviral potential – a review5
Cultivar to chemotype: characterizing complex botanicals with mass spectrometry metabolomics5
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Microbial natural products activated by plant stress5
para-Quinone methides in natural product biosynthesis4
Antarctic bacterial natural products: from genomic insights to drug discovery4
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Controllable skeletal reorganizations in natural product synthesis4
Current status of secondary metabolite pathways linked to their related biosynthetic gene clusters in Aspergillus section Nigri4
Verticillins: fungal epipolythiodioxopiperazine alkaloids with chemotherapeutic potential4
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Medium-sized peptides from microbial sources with potential for antibacterial drug development4
Natural ten-membered lactones: sources, structural diversity, biological activity, and intriguing future4
Strategies for the discovery of potential anticancer agents from plants collected from Southeast Asian tropical rainforests as a case study4
Huperzine alkaloids: forty years of total syntheses4
Discovery, structure revision, synthesis, and application of all known and even unknown securingine alkaloids4
Engineering modular enzyme assembly: synthetic interface strategies for natural products biosynthesis applications4
Polyamine-containing natural products: structure, bioactivity, and biosynthesis3
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The cytochalasans: potent fungal natural products with application from bench to bedside3
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Dietary substances and their glucuronides: structures, occurrence and biological activity3
Plant peptides – redefining an area of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides3
Natural products from plants targeting key enzymes for the future development of antidiabetic agents3
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Isolation and synthesis of bisabosquals, fungal triprenyl phenol meroterpenoids with a densely functionalised bisabolane core3
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Describing the complex chemistry of benthic seawater: from exometabolite sampling strategies to MS-based metabolomics2
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Recent highlights of the total synthesis of cyclic peptide natural products2
β-Lactam antibiotics and β-lactamases: historical perspectives and a review of β-lactamase inhibitors derived from natural products2
Microbial skeletal editing: hints for arene reconstruction from actinobacteria2
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Marine natural products2
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Diversity of enzymatic SAM-dependent C -methylation of aromatic compounds2
Chemistry and biology of specialized metabolites produced by Actinomadura2
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Regulation of daptomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces roseosporus: new insights from genomic analysis and synthetic biology to accelerate lipopeptide discovery and commercial production2
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