In this review, we discuss violacein and prodigiosin, two chromogenic bacterial secondary
metabolites that have diverse biological activities. Although both compounds were …

Bacteria are associated with the human body and colonize the gut, skin, and mucous
membranes. These associations can be either symbiotic or pathogenic. In either case …

Spontaneous tumors regression has been associated with microbial infection for 100s of
years and inspired the use of bacteria for anticancer therapy. Dr. William B. Coley (1862 …

Accumulated evidence indicates that autophagy is a response of cancer cells to various anti-
cancer therapies. Autophagy is designated as programmed cell death type II, and is …

Cancer stands in the frontline among leading killers worldwide and the annual mortality rate
is expected to reach 16.4 million by 2040. Humans suffer from about 200 different types of …

Pigments are among the most fascinating molecules found in nature and used by human
civilizations since the prehistoric ages. Although most of the bio-dyes reported in the …

The growing demand to fulfill the needs of present-day medicine in terms of novel effective
molecules has lead to reexamining some of the old and known bacterial secondary …

Prodigiosin, a red linear tripyrrole pigment and a member of the prodiginine family, is
normally secreted by the human pathogen Serratia marcescens as a secondary metabolite …

Covering: 1985 up to the end of 2016 Fluorescence is a remarkable property of many
natural products in addition to their medicinal and biological values. Herein, we provide a …

A genetically modified Pichia pastoris strain overexpressing a metal-resistant variant of
cytochrome b5 reductase enzyme was developed for silver and selenium biosorption and for …