Archive for November, 2012

2013 NPR Lectureship award – nominations now open!

We are delighted to announce that the 2013 NPR Lectureship award nominations are now open.

The NPR Lectureship is an annual event which is held at an international meeting. From 2013 the NPR Lectureship will be awarded to an Emerging Investigator, with the recipient being a researcher who has made a significant contribution to any natural products-related in their early independent career. Nominees should have completed their PhD on or after the 31st December 2000.

To nominate, please send the name of the person along with a brief justification to NPR Editor, Richard Kelly. Nominations are open to everyone and should be received by 31st December 2012.

The winner will be selected by a panel of judges and the result will be annouced in early 2013. The 2012 winner was Dean Tantillo, UC Davis Chemistry, USA whose research contributed significantly to the understanding of mechanistic enzymology.

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Biosynthesis, pharmacology, organic synthesis and more: the pick of 2012’s Natural Product Reports articles

In 2012 Natural Product Reports published critical and thought-provoking reviews across a broad range of areas of natural products research, including biosynthesis, synthesis, pharmacology, marine & terrestrial natural products, carbohydrates and analytical chemistry. Below are some of the most-accessed articles from 2012:

Marine natural products
John W. Blunt , Brent R. Copp , Robert A. Keyzers , Murray H. G. Munro and Michèle R. Prinsep
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 144-222

The chemical ecology of cyanobacteria
Pedro N. Leão , Niclas Engene , Agostinho Antunes , William H. Gerwick and Vitor Vasconcelos
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 372-391

Electrophilic natural products and their biological targets
Malte Gersch , Johannes Kreuzer and Stephan A. Sieber
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 659-682

Angucyclines: Biosynthesis, mode-of-action, new natural products, and synthesis
Madan K. Kharel , Pallab Pahari , Micah D. Shepherd , Nidhi Tibrewal , S. Eric Nybo, Khaled A. Shaaban and Jürgen Rohr
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 264-325

Advances in Aspergillus secondary metabolite research in the post-genomic era
James F. Sanchez , Amber D. Somoza , Nancy P. Keller and Clay C. C. Wang
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 351-371

Sesquiterpene synthases: Passive catalysts or active players?
David J. Miller and Rudolf K. Allemann
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 60-71

Synthetic approaches toward sesterterpenoids
Daniel T. Hog , Robert Webster and Dirk Trauner
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 752-779

Strained cyclophane natural products: Macrocyclization at its limits
Tanja Gulder and Phil S. Baran
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 899-934

Natural stilbenoids: distribution in the plant kingdom and chemotaxonomic interest in Vitaceae
Céline Rivière , Alison D. Pawlus and Jean-Michel Mérillon
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 1317-1333

NMR in natural products: understanding conformation, configuration and receptor interactions
Teresa Carlomagno
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 536-554

Rare and unusual glycosylation of peptides and proteins
Pierre Lafite and Richard Daniellou
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 729-738

The structures of type I polyketide synthases
Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 1050-1073

And why not preview some of the first articles in 2013?:

Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature
Wilfred A. van der Donk et al.
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013,  DOI: 10.1039/c2np20085f

The enzymes of β-lactam biosynthesis
Refaat B. Hamed, J. Ruben Gomez-Castellanos, Luc Henry, Christian Ducho, Michael A. McDonough and Christopher J. Schofield
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20065A

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Organic natural guanidines on the cover of NPR Issue 12, 2012

Welcome to NPR Issue 12, 2012

This month sees the work of Roberto Berlinck et al. on the cover, with a review showcasing naturally occurring guanidine compounds. Spanning natural guanidines from terrestrial, marine and freshwater microorganisms, marine invertebrates, sponges, or higher plants, the article highlights the newly isolated compounds along with their synthesis and biological properties.

The chemistry and biology of organic guanidine derivatives
Roberto G. S. Berlinck, Amaro E. Trindade-Silva and Mario F. C. Santos

This is the latest review on the topic, however this area is updated regularly. Why not also read some of the previous editions of this review, covering the time periods 2005/07, 2008/09.

Issue 12 also features the latest Hot of the Press, and reviews covering:

The impact of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity on natural products research
Gordon M. Cragg, Flora Katz, David J. Newman and Joshua Rosenthal
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20091K

Investigations of the marine flora and fauna of the Fiji Islands
Klaus-Dieter Feussner, Kavita Ragini, Rohitesh Kumar, Katy M. Soapi, William G. Aalbersberg, Mary Kay Harper, Brad Carte and Chris M. Ireland
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20055D

Ursane-type pentacyclic triterpenoids as useful platforms to discover anticancer drugs
Jorge A. R. Salvador, Vânia M. Moreira, Bruno M. F. Gonçalves, Ana S. Leal and Yongkui Jing
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20060K

We hope you enjoy the issue!

And why not publish with us too? If you are interested in writing an article for NPR, please contact us at the editorial office.

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