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Marcy J. Balunas

University of Michigan
Verified email at umich.edu
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Drug discovery from medicinal plants

MJ Balunas, AD Kinghorn - Life sciences, 2005 - Elsevier
Current research in drug discovery from medicinal plants involves a multifaceted approach
combining botanical, phytochemical, biological, and molecular techniques. Medicinal plant …

Drug discovery from natural sources

YW Chin, MJ Balunas, HB Chai, AD Kinghorn - The AAPS journal, 2006 - Springer
Organic compounds from terrestrial and marine organisms have extensive past and present
use in the treatment of many diseases and serve as compounds of interest both in their …

The natural products atlas: an open access knowledge base for microbial natural products discovery

…, G Jacob, AL Singh, V Aniebok, MJ Balunas… - ACS central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Despite rapid evolution in the area of microbial natural products chemistry, there is currently
no open access database containing all microbially produced natural product structures. …

[HTML][HTML] Propagating annotations of molecular networks using in silico fragmentation

…, E Fox, MJ Balunas… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The annotation of small molecules is one of the most challenging and important steps in
untargeted mass spectrometry analysis, as most of our biological interpretations rely on …

Mass spectrometry searches using MASST

…, M Ernst, AD Swafford, EI Zúñiga, MJ Balunas… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To the Editor—We introduce a webenabled mass spectrometry (MS) search engine, named
Mass Spectrometry Search Tool (MASST; https://masst. ucsd. edu). By enabling searches of …

Stepping forward in antibody-drug conjugate development

Y Jin, MA Schladetsch, X Huang, MJ Balunas… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are cancer therapeutic agents comprised of an antibody,
a linker and a small-molecule payload. ADCs use the specificity of the antibody to target the …

Natural products as aromatase inhibitors

MJ Balunas, B Su, RW Brueggemeier… - Anti-Cancer Agents in …, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
With the clinical success of several synthetic aromatase inhibitors (AIs) in the treatment of
postmenopausal estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, researchers have also been …

Xanthones from the Botanical Dietary Supplement Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) with Aromatase Inhibitory Activity

MJ Balunas, B Su, RW Brueggemeier… - Journal of natural …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Twelve xanthone constituents of the botanical dietary supplement mangosteen (the pericarp
of Garcinia mangostana) were screened using a noncellular, enzyme-based microsomal …

Dragonamide E, a Modified Linear Lipopeptide from Lyngbya majuscula with Antileishmanial Activity

MJ Balunas, RG Linington, K Tidgewell… - Journal of natural …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Tropical parasitic and infectious diseases, such as leishmaniasis, pose enormous global
health threats, but are largely neglected in commercial drug discovery programs. However, the …

Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery

…, JA van Santen, M Sorokina, MJ Balunas… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Developments in computational omics technologies have provided new means to access the
hidden diversity of natural products, unearthing new potential for drug discovery. In parallel…