Marine sponges: potential sources of new antimicrobial drugs

MS Laport, OCS Santos… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Sponges (phylum Porifera) are sessile marine filter feeders that have developed efficient
defense mechanisms against foreign attackers such as viruses, bacteria, or eukaryotic …

Marine natural products

JW Blunt, BR Copp, WP Hu, MHG Munro… - Natural product …, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2005. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2006, 23, 26 This review covers the
literature published in 2005 for marine natural products, with 704 citations (493 for the …

The purines: Potent and versatile small molecule inhibitors and modulators of key biological targets

M Legraverend, DS Grierson - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2006 - Elsevier
The goal of this review is to highlight the wide range of biological activities displayed by
purines, with particular emphasis on new purine-based agents which find potential …

Natural product growth inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

BR Copp, AN Pearce - Natural Product Reports, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2003–2005. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2003, 20, 535–557 This review
covers natural products (secondary metabolites) with reported growth inhibitory activity …

Marine natural products as potential anti-tubercular agents

XM Hou, CY Wang, WH Gerwick, CL Shao - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis has been one of the greatest global health challenges of all time. Although the
current first-line anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) medicines used in the clinic have reduced …

Alkaloids as potential anti-tubercular agents

N Kishore, BB Mishra, V Tripathi, VK Tiwari - Fitoterapia, 2009 - Elsevier
An increasing incidence of deaths due to tuberculosis and the known drawbacks of the
current existing drugs including the emergence of multi drug-resistant strains have led to a …

Drug development against tuberculosis: Impact of alkaloids

SK Mishra, G Tripathi, N Kishore, RK Singh… - European journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite of the advances made in the treatment and management, tuberculosis (TB) still
remains one of main public health problem. The contrary effects of first and second-line anti …

Antimicrobial and cytotoxic activity of agelasine and agelasimine analogs

A Vik, E Hedner, C Charnock, LW Tangen… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2007 - Elsevier
Agelasine and agelasimine derivatives with substantially less complicated terpenoid side
chains compared to the naturally occurring compounds have been synthesized and their …

Synthesis, biological activity, and SAR of antimycobacterial 2-and 8-substituted 6-(2-furyl)-9-(p-methoxybenzyl) purines

M Brændvang, LL Gundersen - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
A number of 6-(2-furyl)-9-(p-methoxybenzyl) purines carrying a variety of substituents in the
2-or 8-position have been synthesized and their ability to inhibit growth of Mycobacterium …

Structures and Biological Evaluations of Agelasines Isolated from the Okinawan Marine Sponge Agelas nakamurai

DB Abdjul, H Yamazaki, S Kanno… - Journal of Natural …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Three new N-methyladenine-containing diterpenes, 2-oxoagelasines A (1) and F (2) and 10-
hydro-9-hydroxyagelasine F (3), were isolated from the Okinawan marine sponge Agelas …