High Diversity of Type I Polyketide Genes in Bacidia rubella as Revealed by the Comparative Analysis of 23 Lichen Genomes

Sensitive protein alignments at tree-of-life scale using DIAMOND

(2021) Benjamin Buchfink et al.   NATURE METHODS

antiSMASH 6.0: improving cluster detection and comparison capabilities

(2021) Kai Blin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Linking a Gene Cluster to Atranorin, a Major Cortical Substance of Lichens, through Genetic Dereplication and Heterologous Expression

(2021) Wonyong Kim et al.   mBio

Production and Activity of Cristazarin in the Lichen-Forming Fungus Cladonia metacorallifera

(2021) Min-Hye Jeong et al.   Journal of Fungi

Depside and Depsidone Synthesis in Lichenized Fungi Comes into Focus through a Genome-Wide Comparison of the Olivetoric Acid and Physodic Acid Chemotypes of Pseudevernia furfuracea

(2021) Garima Singh et al.   Biomolecules

Draft Genome Sequence of the Lichenized Fungus Bacidia gigantensis

(2021) Jessica L. Allen et al.   Microbiology Resource Announcements

Bacidia gigantensis (Ramalinaceae), a new species with homosekikaic acid from the north shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, Canada

(2020) R. Troy McMullin et al.   BRYOLOGIST

Gene and genome duplications in the evolution of chemodiversity: perspectives from studies of Lamiaceae

(2020) Benjamin R Lichman et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Genome-wide analysis of biosynthetic gene cluster reveals correlated gene loss with absence of usnic acid in lichen forming fungi

(2020) David Pizarro et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Biosynthetic Gene Content of the ‘Perfume Lichens’ Evernia prunastri and Pseudevernia furfuracea

(2019) Anjuli Calchera et al.   MOLECULES

Genome mining identifies cepacin as a plant-protective metabolite of the biopesticidal bacterium Burkholderia ambifaria

(2019) Alex J. Mullins et al.   Nature Microbiology

RAxML-NG: a fast, scalable and user-friendly tool for maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference

(2019) Alexey M Kozlov et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A facile in vivo procedure to analyse metabolic pathways in intact lichens

(2019) Veronika Kuhn et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Large-Scale Production of Bioactive Terrein by Aspergillus terreus Strain S020 Isolated from the Saudi Coast of the Red Sea

(2019) Hani Z. Asfour et al.   Biomolecules

Transcriptional heterologous expression of two type III PKS from the lichen Cladonia uncialis

(2019) Robert L. Bertrand et al.   MYCOLOGICAL PROGRESS

A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity

(2019) Jorge C. Navarro-Muñoz et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Bis-naphthopyrone pigments protect filamentous ascomycetes from a wide range of predators

(2019) Yang Xu et al.   Nature Communications

A database of high-resolution MS/MS spectra for lichen metabolites

(2019) Damien Olivier-Jimenez et al.   Scientific Data

Biosynthesis of Heptacyclic Duclauxins Requires Extensive Redox Modifications of the Phenalenone Aromatic Polyketide

(2018) Shu-Shan Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fungal secondary metabolism: regulation, function and drug discovery

(2018) Nancy P. Keller   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Tissue-specific localization of polyketide synthase and other associated genes in the lichen, Cladonia rangiferina, using laser microdissection

(2018) Mostafa E. Elshobary et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Unravelling the biosynthesis of pyriculol in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

(2017) Stefan Jacob et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Melanins in fungi: Types, localization and putative biological roles

(2017) Andrea Vanesa Toledo et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Orange, red, yellow: biosynthesis of azaphilone pigments in Monascus fungi

(2017) Wanping Chen et al.   Chemical Science

Global analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters reveals vast potential of secondary metabolite production in Penicillium species

(2017) Jens Christian Nielsen et al.   Nature Microbiology

Putative identification of the usnic acid biosynthetic gene cluster by de novo whole-genome sequencing of a lichen-forming fungus

(2016) Mona Abdel-Hameed et al.   Fungal Biology

Genome mining of the sordarin biosynthetic gene cluster from Sordaria araneosa Cain ATCC 36386: characterization of cycloaraneosene synthase and GDP-6-deoxyaltrose transferase

(2016) Fumitaka Kudo et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS

Identification of 6-Hydroxymellein Synthase and Accessory Genes in the Lichen Cladonia uncialis

(2016) Mona Abdel-Hameed et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

The molecular steps of citrinin biosynthesis in fungi

(2016) Yi He et al.   Chemical Science

hybridSPAdes: an algorithm for hybrid assembly of short and long reads

(2015) Dmitry Antipov et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogeny of type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) in fungal entomopathogens and expression analysis of PKS genes in Beauveria bassiana BCC 2660

(2015) Juntira Punya et al.   Fungal Biology

Computational approaches to natural product discovery

(2015) Marnix H Medema et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Bioinformatical Analysis of the Sequences, Structures and Functions of Fungal Polyketide Synthase Product Template Domains

(2015) Lu Liu et al.   Scientific Reports

Terrein Biosynthesis in Aspergillus terreus and Its Impact on Phytotoxicity

(2014) Christoph Zaehle et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A multigene phylogenetic synthesis for the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota): 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 317 genera and 66 families

(2014) Jolanta Miadlikowska et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Estimating the Phanerozoic history of the Ascomycota lineages: Combining fossil and molecular data

(2014) Christina Beimforde et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The biosynthetic pathway for a thousand-year-old natural food colorant and citrinin in Penicillium marneffei

(2014) Patrick C. Y. Woo et al.   Scientific Reports

QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies

(2013) Alexey Gurevich et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Structural and Stereochemical Analysis of a Modular Polyketide Synthase Ketoreductase Domain Required for the Generation of a cis-Alkene

(2013) Shilah A. Bonnett et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap

(2013) B. Q. Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic Study of Polyketide Synthases and Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases Involved in the Biosynthesis of Mycotoxins

(2013) Antonia Gallo et al.   Toxins

Genome-Based Cluster Deletion Reveals an Endocrocin Biosynthetic Pathway in Aspergillus fumigatus

(2012) Fang Yun Lim et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biosynthesis of Fusarubins Accounts for Pigmentation of Fusarium fujikuroi Perithecia

(2012) Lena Studt et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Illuminating the Diversity of Aromatic Polyketide Synthases in Aspergillus nidulans

(2012) Manmeet Ahuja et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dendroscope 3: An Interactive Tool for Rooted Phylogenetic Trees and Networks

(2012) Daniel H. Huson et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Synthesis and assembly of fungal melanin

(2011) Helene C. Eisenman et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Insights from the first putative biosynthetic gene cluster for a lichen depside and depsidone

(2011) Daniele Armaleo et al.   MYCOLOGIA

A new repeat-masking method enables specific detection of homologous sequences

(2010) Martin C. Frith   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Bioactive lichen metabolites: alpine habitats as an untapped source

(2010) Joel Boustie et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Structure and function of an iterative polyketide synthase thioesterase domain catalyzing Claisen cyclization in aflatoxin biosynthesis

(2010) T. P. Korman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

A Gene Cluster Containing Two Fungal Polyketide Synthases Encodes the Biosynthetic Pathway for a Polyketide, Asperfuranone, inAspergillus nidulans

(2009) Yi-Ming Chiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

PKS and NRPS release mechanisms

(2009) Liangcheng Du et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Gene prediction in novel fungal genomes using an ab initio algorithm with unsupervised training

(2008) V. Ter-Hovhannisyan et al.   GENOME RESEARCH