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Natural products : discourse, diversity and design / / editors, Anne Osbourn, Rebecca J. Goss, Guy T. Carter
| Natural products : discourse, diversity and design / / editors, Anne Osbourn, Rebecca J. Goss, Guy T. Carter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ames, Iowa : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (565 p.) |
| Disciplina | 547.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Natural products
Microbial metabolism |
| ISBN |
1-118-79460-5
1-118-79462-1 1-118-79467-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Natural Products; Contents; Contributors; Section I Natural Products in the Natural World; Part 1 Role and Reason; 1 The Role of Phytochemicals in Relationships of Plants with Other Organisms; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Glucosinolates; 1.2.1 Glucosinolates Affect Insect-Plant Relationship; 1.2.2 Glucosinolates in Plant Immunity; 1.3 Benzoxazinone Glucosides; 1.4 Strigolactones; 1.5 Phytoalexins - Inducible Defense Metabolites; 1.5.1 Phenyalanine-derived Phytoalexins; 1.5.2 Phytoalexins in Brassicaceae; 1.6 Conclusions; References
2 Designer Microbial Ecosystems - Toward Biosynthesis with Engineered Microbial Consortia2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Bacterial Cell-to-Cell Communication via Quorum-Sensing Systems; 2.3 Engineering Population Control into Designer Bioproduction Consortia; 2.4 Control and Optimization of Bioproduction Consortia; 2.5 Design of Synthetic Microbial Consortia for Biosynthesis; 2.6 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Marine Natural Products - Chemical Defense/Chemical Communication in Sponges and Corals; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Chemical Communication between the Organism and Its Environment 3.2.1 Feeding Deterrents3.2.2 Compounds Inducing Larvae Settlement; 3.2.3 Photoprotective and Antioxidant Compounds; 3.2.4 Antifouling Compounds; 3.2.5 Antimicrobial Compounds; 3.3 Mediating Communication between Host and Microbial Associates; 3.3.1 Chemical Control by the Host of Its Microbial Partners; 3.3.2 Chemical Resistance of the Microbial Partners to the Host Digestion; 3.3.3 Chemical Defense of the Host by Associated Microorganisms; 3.4 Chemical Communication within the Host Microbial Compartment; 3.4.1 Molecules Involved in Quorum Sensing 3.4.2 Molecules Involved in Bacterial Antagonisms3.5 Conclusions and Perspectives; References; Part 2 Self-Protection - Avoiding Autotoxicity; 4 How Plants Avoid the Toxicity of Self-Produced Defense Bioactive Compounds; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Sequestration and Excretion; 4.2.1 Vacuolar Sequestration; 4.2.2 Extracellular Excretion; 4.3 Genomic Clustering; 4.4 Target Mutation-based Mechanism; 4.5 Predicting Drug Resistance in Other Organisms; Acknowledgments; References; Part 3 Fishing and Pharming; 5 Marine Bioprospecting; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 International Treaties and Permit Issues 5.3 Techniques and Types of Collection5.4 Screening Extracts vs. Fractions vs. Compounds; 5.5 Chemical and Biological Screening Methods; 5.6 Innovations on the Horizon; 5.7 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 6 Myxobacteria: Chemical Diversity and Screening Strategies; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Natural Products from Myxobacteria: Chemistry and Biological Activity, a Review of Publications Since 2009; 6.2.1 Peptides; 6.2.2 Macrolides; 6.2.3 Polyketides; 6.2.4 Miscellaneous; 6.3 Screening for New Scaffolds; 6.3.1 Screening for New Antimicrobials (Bioassay-Guided Fractionation) 6.3.2 Mining New Myxobacterial Taxa and Structure-Guided Isolation: The Aethearmides |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818105603321 |
| Ames, Iowa : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
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