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Domestication of chemicals attacking metazoan embryogenesis: identification of safe natural products modifying developmental signaling pathways in human

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Soil microorganisms are rich sources of bioactive natural products. Interspecies interactions are the cues of their production and refine biological activities. These interactions in natural environments include the interplay between microorganisms and Metazoans (animals), such as nematodes, insects, and ticks. Chemical intercellular communication modulators could exert ideal Metazoan-selective toxicity for defending microorganisms. Developmental signaling pathways, such as the Notch, TGF-beta, and Wnt pathways, are intercellular communication networks that contribute to the reproducible formation of complex higher-order Metazoan body structures. Natural modifiers of the developmental signaling pathway are attractive therapeutic seeds for carcinoma and sarcoma treatment. However, these fundamental signaling pathways also play indispensable physiological roles and their perturbation could lead to toxicity, such as defects in stem cell physiology and tissue regeneration processes. In this review, we introduce a screening system that selects developmental signaling inhibitors with wide therapeutic windows using zebrafish embryonic phenotypes and provide examples of microorganism-derived Wnt pathway inhibitors. Moreover, we discuss safety prospects of the developmental signaling inhibitors.

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We would like to thank students, colleagues, and collaborators for their dedicated work. We extend our special thanks to Dr. Hitoshi Okamoto for the guidance in zebrafish phenotypic analysis, Dr. Yoshimasa Uehara for the guidance in chemical screenings, Dr. Tomikazu Kawano for the chemical synthesis. The research in the laboratory of the authors was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI grant Numbers JP18K07329, JP25460069, JP22790082) and the Takeda Science Foundation. Honami Yonezawa was supported by the Nagai Memorial Research Scholarship from the Pharmaceutical 328 Society of Japan.

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Nishiya, N., Yonezawa, H. Domestication of chemicals attacking metazoan embryogenesis: identification of safe natural products modifying developmental signaling pathways in human. J Antibiot 74, 651–659 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41429-021-00461-y

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