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Mass Spectrometry-Guided Genome Mining as a Tool to Uncover Novel Natural Products
Published on: March 12, 2020
MS2DECIDE: Harnessing the complementarity of mass spectrometry annotation tools for prioritizing novel natural
Yassine Mejri1, Olivier Cailloux2, Pierre Le Pogam3
1Équipe "Chimie des Substances Naturelles" BioCIS, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France; CNRS, LAMSADE, PSL Research University, Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France.
Abstract:
Natural products (NPs) are valuable sources for drug development, as they are often associated with potent bioactivities. Therefore, approaches that enable the rapid discovery of novel NPs by mining their presence in crude extracts metabolomics data while providing insights into their novelty are highly sought after by chemists. Mass spectrometry-based NPs targeted discovery often relies on a complicated decision-making process involving tedious comparison of exact masses data and tandem mass spectra-based annotation tools output against various databases. To address this bottleneck, we developed MS2DECIDE, for which a tutorial workflow for the targeted discovery of novel NPs is outlined in this chapter.
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