PMID- 37070562 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230921 LR - 20230927 IS - 1460-4752 (Electronic) IS - 0265-0568 (Linking) VI - 40 IP - 9 DP - 2023 Sep 20 TI - A chemoinformatic analysis on natural glycosides with respect to biological origin and structural class. PG - 1464-1478 LID - 10.1039/d2np00089j [doi] AB - Covering: up to 202216.19% of reported natural products (NPs) in the Dictionary of Natural Products (DNP) are glycosides. As one of the most important NPs' structural modifications, glycosylation can change the NPs' polarity, making the aglycones more amphipathic. However, until now, little is known about the general distribution profile of the natural glycosides in different biological sources or structural types. The reason, structural or species preferences of the natural glycosylation remain unclear. In this highlight, chemoinformatic methods were employed to analyze the natural glycosides from DNP, the most comprehensively annotated NP database. We found that the glycosylation ratios of NPs from plants, bacteria, animals and fungi decrease successively, which are 24.99%, 20.84%, 8.40% and 4.48%, respectively. Echinoderm-derived NPs (56.11%) are the most frequently glycosylated, while those produced by molluscs (1.55%), vertebrates (2.19%) and Rhodophyta (3.00%) are the opposite. Among the diverse structural types, a large proportion of steroids (45.19%), tannins (44.78%) and flavonoids (39.21%) are glycosides, yet aminoacids and peptides (5.16%), alkaloids (5.66%) are comparatively less glycosylated. Even within the same biological source or structural type, their glycosylation rates fluctuate drastically between sub- or cross-categories. The substitute patterns of flavonoid and terpenoid glycosides and the most frequently glycosylated scaffolds were identified. NPs with different glycosylation levels occupy different chemical spaces of physicochemical property and scaffold. These findings could help us to interpret the preference of NPs' glycosylation and investigate how NP glycosylation could aid NP-based drug discovery. FAU - Chen, Yinliang AU - Chen Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4336-5117 AD - National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural Bioinformatics Key Laboratory of Hubei Province, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China. dxkong@mail.hzau.edu.cn. FAU - Liu, Yi AU - Liu Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5821-5739 AD - National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural Bioinformatics Key Laboratory of Hubei Province, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China. dxkong@mail.hzau.edu.cn. FAU - Chen, Nianhang AU - Chen N AD - National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural Bioinformatics Key Laboratory of Hubei Province, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China. dxkong@mail.hzau.edu.cn. FAU - Jin, Yuting AU - Jin Y AD - National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural Bioinformatics Key Laboratory of Hubei Province, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China. dxkong@mail.hzau.edu.cn. FAU - Yang, Ruofei AU - Yang R AD - National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural Bioinformatics Key Laboratory of Hubei Province, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China. dxkong@mail.hzau.edu.cn. FAU - Yao, Hucheng AU - Yao H AD - National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural Bioinformatics Key Laboratory of Hubei Province, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China. dxkong@mail.hzau.edu.cn. FAU - Kong, De-Xin AU - Kong DX AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0744-116X AD - National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Agricultural Bioinformatics Key Laboratory of Hubei Province, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China. dxkong@mail.hzau.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20230920 PL - England TA - Nat Prod Rep JT - Natural product reports JID - 8502408 RN - 0 (Glycosides) RN - 0 (Flavonoids) RN - 0 (Plant Extracts) RN - 0 (Biological Products) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Glycosides/chemistry MH - Cheminformatics MH - Flavonoids/chemistry MH - Plants MH - Plant Extracts MH - *Biological Products/chemistry EDAT- 2023/04/19 06:00 MHDA- 2023/09/21 06:42 CRDT- 2023/04/18 06:02 PHST- 2023/09/21 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/04/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/04/18 06:02 [entrez] AID - 10.1039/d2np00089j [doi] PST - epublish SO - Nat Prod Rep. 2023 Sep 20;40(9):1464-1478. doi: 10.1039/d2np00089j.