Biosynthesis of Natural Products

Dear Colleagues,

In the course of evolution, Nature has developed a very large variety of biocatalysts to produce an inexhaustible diversity of biologically active natural products. Understanding the principles of their biosynthesis is not only of high academic value, but also facilitates the directed manipulation of biosynthetic pathways, e.g., to enhance compound production titers or to optimize structures for biomedical applications. In addition, many natural product biosynthetic enzymes catalyze reactions not yet addressable by synthetic chemists and, thus, may be valuable biocatalytic tools. The field of natural product biosynthesis is therefore an exciting current and future scientific playground, with tremendous potential across chemical, biomolecular and biomedical disciplines.

In this Special Issue, we welcome research articles and reviews across the broad field of natural product biosynthesis, ranging from interrogating whole natural product pathways or individual enzymes to the manipulation of biosynthetic machineries.

As Guest Editor, I cordially invite researchers to submit their recent advances in the field to this Special Issue of Molecules.

Prof. Dr. Tobias A. M. Gulder
Guest Editor

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