In Issue 2, 2007 of NPR
30 March 2007
Highlight
Rajesh Gokhale and colleagues from the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India highlight the versatile way in which mycobacteria use polyketide synthase proteins in the biosynthesis of complex lipid metabolites.

On the front cover
Natural products play a key role in the search for antituberculosis drugs. In this review, which covers literature published from 2003 to 2005, Brent Copp and Norrie Pearce from the University of Auckland, New Zealand cover natural products which display inhibitory activity towards Mycobacterium tuberculosis or related organisms.

This issue also contains the latest Hot off the Press article and six other reviews.
Richard Kelly
Rajesh Gokhale and colleagues from the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India highlight the versatile way in which mycobacteria use polyketide synthase proteins in the biosynthesis of complex lipid metabolites.

On the front cover
Natural products play a key role in the search for antituberculosis drugs. In this review, which covers literature published from 2003 to 2005, Brent Copp and Norrie Pearce from the University of Auckland, New Zealand cover natural products which display inhibitory activity towards Mycobacterium tuberculosis or related organisms.

This issue also contains the latest Hot off the Press article and six other reviews.
Richard Kelly
References
Rajesh S. Gokhale, Priti Saxena, Tarun Chopra and Debasisa Mohanty, Nat. Prod. Rep., 2007,(DOI: 10.1039/b616817p)
Brent R. Copp and A. Norrie Pearce, Nat. Prod. Rep., 2007, (DOI: 10.1039/b513520f)
