Peptides from marine-derived Fungi: chemistry and biological activities

S Hafez Ghoran, F Taktaz, E Sousa, C Fernandes… - Marine Drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Marine natural products are well-recognized as potential resources to fill the pipeline of drug
leads to enter the pharmaceutical industry. In this circumstance, marine-derived fungi are …

Structural diversity and biological activities of the cyclodipeptides from fungi

X Wang, Y Li, X Zhang, D Lai, L Zhou - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Cyclodipeptides, called 2, 5-diketopiperazines (2, 5-DKPs), are obtained by the
condensation of two amino acids. Fungi have been considered to be a rich source of novel …

Isolation of anticancer and anti-trypanosome secondary metabolites from the endophytic fungus Aspergillus flocculus via bioactivity guided isolation and MS based …

AF Tawfike, M Romli, C Clements, G Abbott… - … of Chromatography B, 2019 - Elsevier
This study aims to identify bioactive anticancer and anti-trypanosome secondary metabolites
from the fermentation culture of Aspergillus flocculus endophyte assisted by modern …

Discovery, bioactivity and biosynthesis of fungal piperazines

R Wang, AM Piggott, YH Chooi, H Li - Natural Product Reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the end of July, 2022 Fungi are prolific producers of piperazine alkaloids,
which have been shown to exhibit an array of remarkable biological activities. Since the first …

Glyclauxins A–E: Dimeric Oxaphenalenone Aminoglycosides from an Australian Wasp Nest-Derived Fungus Talaromyces sp. CMB-MW102

K Samarasekera, WM Hussein, T Wu… - Journal of Natural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chemical analysis of cultures of a Queensland mud dauber wasp nest-derived fungus,
Talaromyces sp. CMB-MW102, yielded the known dimeric oxaphenalenone duclauxin (1) …

Methods in microbial biodiscovery

AA Salim, ZG Khalil, AH Elbanna, T Wu, RJ Capon - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review presents an account of the microbial biodiscovery methodology developed and
applied in our laboratory at The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience …

Chemistry and Biology of Secondary Metabolites from Aspergillus Genus

X Zhang, Z Li, J Gao - The Natural Products Journal, 2018 - benthamdirect.com
Aspergillus is a genus of ubiquitous fungi that are therapeutically important because the
genus produces a wide range of structurally diverse secondary metabolites that are of highly …

Cryptic Secondary Metabolites from the Sponge-Associated Fungus Aspergillus ochraceus

M Frank, FC Özkaya, WEG Müller, A Hamacher… - Marine Drugs, 2019 - mdpi.com
The fungus Aspergillus ochraceus was isolated from the Mediterranean sponge Agelas
oroides. The initial fermentation of the fungus on solid rice medium yielded 16 known …

[HTML][HTML] The emerging field of venom-microbiomics for exploring venom as a microenvironment, and the corresponding Initiative for Venom Associated Microbes and …

S Ul-Hasan, E Rodríguez-Román, AM Reitzel… - Toxicon: X, 2019 - Elsevier
Venom is a known source of novel antimicrobial natural products. The substantial,
increasing number of these discoveries have unintentionally culminated in the …

Discovery of brevijanazines from Aspergillus brevijanus reveals the molecular basis for p-nitrobenzoic acid in fungi

H Li, PM Mirzayans, MS Butler, AE Lacey… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The brevijanazines are novel p-nitrobenzoylated piperazines isolated from Aspergillus
brevijanus. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic analysis, X-ray crystallography …