Dibrominated tag helps identify new natural products
New substance allows researchers to find new aldehyde- and ketone-containing natural products
The discovery of new natural products is an important route to new drug candidates, and to better understanding biological pathways. However, abundant natural products keep being rediscovered, while the rarer ones are missed.
A team of researchers led by Douglas Mitchell at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the US has come up with a molecule to identify new natural products in bacterial extracts.
This article provides a link to coverage by Chemistry World.
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