Project 1:Discovery, biosynthesis, and chemical biology of novel actinomycete natural products
1. Pan J, Tan Q, Zhu S, Yan X, Li Y, Zhuang Z, Zhu X, Duan Y, Huang Y#. Discovery of pentaene polyols by the activation of an enediyne gene cluster: biosynthetic implications for 9-membered enediyne core structures. Chem Sci. 2022, 13, 13475-13481.
2. Gong B, Bai E, Feng X, Yi L, Wang Y, Chen X, Zhu X, Duan Y#, Huang Y#. Characterization of chalkophomycin, a copper(II) metallophore with an unprecedented molecular architecture. J Am Chem Soc. 2021, 143, 20579-20584.
3. Zhu S, Wang Y, Wen Z, Duan Y#, Huang Y#. Discovery of a DNA topoisomerase I inhibitor huanglongmycin N and its congeners from Streptomyces sp. CB09001. J Org Chem. 2021, 86,16675-16683.
4. Liu L, Li S, Sun R, Qin X, Ju J, Zhang C, Duan Y#, Huang Y#. Activation and characterization of bohemamine biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces sp. CB02009. Org Lett. 2020, 22, 4614-4619.
5. Liang H*, Jiang L*, Jiang Q, Shi J, Xiang J, Yan X, Zhu X, Zhao L, Shen B, Duan Y#, Huang Y#. A 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA synthase-based probe for the discovery of the acyltransferase-less type I polyketide synthases. Environ Microbiol. 2019, 21, 4270-4282.
Project 2:Development of small molecule tools to study lipid metabolism in cancer, metabolic and infectious diseases.
6. Cao D, Yang J, Deng Y, Su M, Wang Y, Feng X, Xiong Y, Bai E, Duan Y#, Huang Y#. Discovery of a mammalian FASN inhibitor against xenografts of non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma. Signal Transduct Target Ther. 2022, 7, 273.
7. Wang Z*, Chen X*, Li D, Bai E, Zhang H, Duan Y, Huang Y#. Platensimycin-berberine chloride co-amorphous drug system: Sustained release and prolonged half-life. Eur J Pharm Biopharm. 2022, 179, 126-136.
8. Li Y, Weng X, Deng Y, Pan J, Zhu S, Wen Z, Yuan Y, Li S, Shen B, Duan Y#, Huang Y#. Semisynthesis and biological evaluation of platencin thioether derivatives: Dual FabF and FabH inhibitors against MRSA. ACS Med Chem Lett. 2021, 12, 433-442.
9. Deng Y, Weng X, Li Y, Su M, Wen Z, Ji X, Ren N, Shen B, Duan Y#, Huang Y# Late-stage functionalization of platensimycin leading to multiple analogues with improved antibacterial activity in vitro and in vivo. J Med Chem. 2019, 62, 6682-6693.
10. Deng Y, Su M, Kang D, Liu X, Wen Z, Li Y, Qiu L, Shen B, Duan Y#, Huang Y# Semisynthesis of platensimycin derivatives with antibiotic activities in mice via Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions. J Med Chem 2018, 61, 11341-11348.