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Microbial Natural Products: Recent Insights into Novel Applications

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Natural products obtained from plants, animals and microorganisms are a gift of nature to humanity owing to their wide range of applications. Recent development in the fields of biotechnology has led to the revelation of novel functions of natural products in the textile industry, food industry, cosmetic industry and pharmaceutical industry. The scientific focus has been shifted to utilise sustainable and eco-friendly materials with the consumer’s increased awareness of eco-safety. With the advancement in technologies, the exploitation of rich natural sources has gained exploding interest commercially to isolate natural products. During recent years, the quest for novel drugs from potentially untapped natural resources has brought man closer to nature. Microorganisms represent a vast repertoire of natural products, many of them with medicinal importance. They are renowned potential mines enriched with novel natural products needed to tackle the grim situation of antibiotic resistance worldwide. Despite huge research underway, only a few microbial sources with unique natural products have been identified yet. Microbial sources have the potential to fuel the advanced generation of drugs by providing a platform to come up with a new golden age of microbe-derived therapeutics.

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    Rajnish Kumar Verma

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Verma, R.K., Sharma, A. (2020). Microbial Natural Products: Recent Insights into Novel Applications. In: Singh, J., Meshram, V., Gupta, M. (eds) Bioactive Natural products in Drug Discovery. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1394-7_9

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