Issue 11, 2017

Antibiotics and specialized metabolites from the human microbiota

Abstract

Covering: 2000 to 2017

Decades of research on human microbiota have revealed much of their taxonomic diversity and established their direct link to health and disease. However, the breadth of bioactive natural products secreted by our microbial partners remains unknown. Of particular interest are antibiotics produced by our microbiota to ward off invasive pathogens. Members of the human microbiota exclusively produce evolved small molecules with selective antimicrobial activity against human pathogens. Herein, we expand upon the current knowledge concerning antibiotics derived from human microbiota and their distribution across body sites. We analyze, using our in-house chem-bioinformatic tools and natural products database, the encoded antibiotic potential of the human microbiome. This compilation of information may create a foundation for the continued exploration of this intriguing resource of chemical diversity and expose challenges and future perspectives to accelerate the discovery rate of small molecules from the human microbiota.

Graphical abstract: Antibiotics and specialized metabolites from the human microbiota

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Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
27 Meur. 2017
First published
11 Here 2017

Nat. Prod. Rep., 2017,34, 1302-1331

Antibiotics and specialized metabolites from the human microbiota

W. K. Mousa, B. Athar, N. J. Merwin and N. A. Magarvey, Nat. Prod. Rep., 2017, 34, 1302 DOI: 10.1039/C7NP00021A

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