Bioactive compounds from marine heterobranchs

C Avila, C Angulo-Preckler - Marine Drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
The natural products of heterobranch molluscs display a huge variability both in structure
and in their bioactivity. Despite the considerable lack of information, it can be observed from …

The potential of Indonesian heterobranchs found around Bunaken Island for the production of bioactive compounds

KM Fisch, C Hertzer, N Böhringer, ZG Wuisan… - Marine drugs, 2017 - mdpi.com
The species diversity of marine heterobranch sea slugs found on field trips around Bunaken
Island (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) and adjacent islands of the Bunaken National Marine …

Potential candidates from marine and terrestrial resources targeting mitochondrial inhibition: insights from the molecular approach

S Mitra, A Rauf, H Sutradhar, S Sadaf… - … and Physiology Part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mitochondria are the target sites for multiple disease manifestations, for which it is appealing
to researchers' attention for advanced pharmacological interventions. Mitochondrial …

Concise Synthesis and Biological Assessment of (+)‐Neopeltolide and a 16‐Member Stereoisomer Library of 8, 9‐Dehydroneopeltolide: Identification of …

H Fuwa, M Kawakami, K Noto, T Muto… - … A European Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We describe herein a concise synthesis of (+)‐neopeltolide, a marine macrolide natural
product that elicits a highly potent antiproliferative activity against several human cancer cell …

Structurally diverse hamigerans from the New Zealand marine sponge Hamigera tarangaensis: NMR-directed isolation, structure elucidation and antifungal activity

AJ Singh, JD Dattelbaum, JJ Field, Z Smart… - Organic & …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The NMR-directed investigation of the New Zealand marine sponge Hamigera tarangaensis
has afforded ten new compounds of the hamigeran family, and a new 13-epi-verrucosane …

A Catalytic Approach for Enantioselective Synthesis of Homoallylic Alcohols Bearing a Z-Alkenyl Chloride or Trifluoromethyl Group. A Concise and Protecting Group …

RJ Morrison, FW van der Mei, F Romiti… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A protecting group-free strategy is presented for diastereo-and enantioselective routes that
can be used to prepare a wide variety of Z-homoallylic alcohols with significantly higher …

Marine-Derived Leads as Anticancer Candidates by Disrupting Hypoxic Signaling through Hypoxia-Inducible Factors Inhibition

MR Garcia, PB Andrade, F Lefranc, NGM Gomes - Marine Drugs, 2024 - mdpi.com
The inadequate vascularization seen in fast-growing solid tumors gives rise to hypoxic
areas, fostering specific changes in gene expression that bolster tumor cell survival and …

Natural product-inspired profluorophores for imaging NQO1 activity in tumour tissues

Z Cheng, WO Valenca, GG Dias, J Scott… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Herein we designed a collection of trimethyl-lock quinone profluorophores as activity-based
probes for imaging NAD (P) H: quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1) in cancer cells and tumour …

Recent progress of marine polypeptides as anticancer agents

L Zheng, Y Xu, X Lin, Z Yuan, M Liu… - Recent patents on …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Marine environment constitutes an almost infinite resource for novel anticancer
drug discovery. The biodiversity of marine organisms provides a rich source for the …

Further Probing the Properties of a Unique Sponge-derived Alkaloid Through the Isolation of a New (−)-(5E)-(8R)-(14Z)-Mycothiazole Analogue

JA Gerke, SF Odron, J Kim, N Dutta… - Journal of natural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Scale-up isolation of (+)-(5 Z)-(8 S)-(14 Z)-mycothiazole (1) from Vanuatu specimens of C.
mycofijiensis to semisynthesize (+)-(5 Z)-(8 S)-8-O-acetyl-(14 Z)-mycothiazole (2) revealed a …