title: Endolichenic Fungi: A Hidden Reservoir of Next Generation Biopharmaceuticals.
abstract: Endolichenic fungi (ELF) offer an opportunity to discover emerging natural drugs. ELF are promising bioresources given their ability to produce bioactive metabolites that represent unique and diverse structural classes. Here, we assess the potential of recent technologies to provide insight into the chemical diversity of ELF for biopharmaceutical development.
authors.affiliation: Herbal Nanobiotechnology Lab, Pharmacognosy & Ethnopharmacology Division, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India. Electronic address: singhbrahmanand99@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Brahma N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Lichenology Laboratory, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India.
authors.forename: Dalip K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Upreti
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, 12618, Estonia. Electronic address: vijaifzd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Vijai K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Institute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China. Electronic address: ymjiang@scbg.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Yueming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D001702:Biopharmaceutics; D055808:Drug Discovery; D008011:Lichens / Q000737:chemistry*