Welcome to NPR Issue 1, 2012
Looking back on 2011, we’d like to thank all our authors, readers and referees for what has been another very successful year for Natural Product Reports. A big thanks also goes to the NPR Editorial Board for their great support and enthusiasm.
Read the 2012 Editorial by NPR Chair Professor Bradley Moore and Editor Dr Richard Kelly reflecting on this year’s many highlights and catch a glimpse of what to look ahead to for a bright 2012!
On the cover of this first Issue is the work of Judith M. Rollinger et al., reviewing the increasing research efforts of the past decade on neuroaminidase (NA) for lead discovery strategies from nature, focusing on the structure, function and druggability of influenza NA, and its inhibition by natural products. This review will be free to access for the next 6 weeks.
Influenza neuraminidase: A druggable target for natural products
Ulrike Grienke, Michaela Schmidtke, Susanne von Grafenstein, Johannes Kirchmair, Klaus R. Liedl and Judith M. Rollinger
DOI: 10.1039/C1NP00053E
Also in this Issue, read:
- Aminobenzoates as building blocks for natural product assembly lines
Christopher T. Walsh, Stuart W. Haynes and Brian D. Ames
DOI: 10.1039/C1NP00072A - Sesquiterpene synthases: Passive catalysts or active players?
David J. Miller and Rudolf K. Allemann
DOI: 10.1039/C1NP00060H - Beyond ethylmalonyl-CoA: The functional role of crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase homologs in expanding polyketide diversity
Micheal C. Wilson and Bradley S. Moore
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 72-86
DOI: 10.1039/C1NP00082A - The diazofluorene antitumor antibiotics: Structural elucidation, biosynthetic, synthetic, and chemical biological studies
Seth B. Herzon and Christina M. Woo
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 87-118
DOI: 10.1039/C1NP00052G
We hope you enjoy reading our first issue for this new volume of NPR and we wish you all the warmest Season’s Greetings.
