PMID- 33020792 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211026 LR - 20211026 IS - 1460-4752 (Electronic) IS - 0265-0568 (Linking) VI - 37 IP - 11 DP - 2020 Nov 18 TI - Guided by evolution: from biology oriented synthesis to pseudo natural products. PG - 1497-1510 LID - 10.1039/d0np00015a [doi] AB - Covering: up to 2020 Natural products (NPs) provide inspiration for the design of biologically active compounds and libraries. In this review, we cover several experimental and in silico approaches, which have been used to simplify NPs and guide NP-based library design. Earlier approaches, like the structural classification of natural products (SCONP) and biology-oriented synthesis (BIOS), focus on the identification of activity determining scaffolds and the synthesis of corresponding compound collections. More recently, NP fragments identified by means of cheminformatic analysis of the Dictionary of Natural Products (DNP) have been combined in unprecedented fashions to yield pseudo natural products (pseudo NPs), which show biological activities unrelated to the guiding NPs. Each approach was also the source of chemical innovation, in which synthetic methods were established for the rapid assembly of NP-inspired compounds and libraries. FAU - Cremosnik, Gregor S AU - Cremosnik GS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3216-5312 AD - Department of Chemical Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany. herbert.waldmann@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de. FAU - Liu, Jie AU - Liu J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9455-325X AD - Department of Chemical Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany. herbert.waldmann@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de and Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TU Dortmund University, 44227 Dortmund, Germany. FAU - Waldmann, Herbert AU - Waldmann H AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9606-7247 AD - Department of Chemical Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11, 44227 Dortmund, Germany. herbert.waldmann@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de and Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TU Dortmund University, 44227 Dortmund, Germany. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review PL - England TA - Nat Prod Rep JT - Natural product reports JID - 8502408 RN - 0 (Biological Products) SB - IM MH - Biological Products/*chemical synthesis/chemistry/pharmacology MH - Computer Simulation MH - *Evolution, Chemical MH - Molecular Structure EDAT- 2020/10/07 06:00 MHDA- 2021/10/27 06:00 CRDT- 2020/10/06 05:33 PHST- 2020/10/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/10/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/10/06 05:33 [entrez] AID - 10.1039/d0np00015a [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nat Prod Rep. 2020 Nov 18;37(11):1497-1510. doi: 10.1039/d0np00015a.