Marine natural products

JW Blunt, AR Carroll, BR Copp, RA Davis… - Natural product …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2016. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2017, 34, 235–294 This review covers the
literature published in 2016 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 757 citations (643 for …

Bioactives from marine resources as natural health products: A review

S Santhiravel, D Dave, F Shahidi - Pharmacological Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The oceans are a rich source of a myriad of structurally different and unique natural products
that are mainly found in invertebrates with potential applications in different disciplines …

Photo-uncaging of a microtubule-targeted rigidin analogue in hypoxic cancer cells and in a xenograft mouse model

VHS van Rixel, V Ramu, AB Auyeung… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Marine alkaloid rigidins are cytotoxic compounds known to kill cancer cells at nanomolar
concentrations by targeting the microtubule network. Here, a rigidin analogue containing a …

Red‐Light Activation of a Microtubule Polymerization Inhibitor via Amide Functionalization of the Ruthenium Photocage

L Bretin, Y Husiev, V Ramu, L Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) is a promising cancer treatment modality that kills
cancer cells via photochemical uncaging of a cytotoxic drug. Most ruthenium‐based …

Marine natural products with high anticancer activities

D Matulja, K Wittine, N Malatesti… - Current medicinal …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
This review covers recent literature from 2012-2019 concerning 170 marine natural products
and their semisynthetic analogues with strong anticancer biological activities. Reports that …

Marine invertebrate natural products that target microtubules

JH Miller, JJ Field, A Kanakkanthara… - Journal of natural …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Marine natural products as secondary metabolites are a potential major source of new drugs
for treating disease. In some cases, cytotoxic marine metabolites target the microtubules of …

Marine Alkaloids: Compounds with In Vivo Activity and Chemical Synthesis

PES Munekata, M Pateiro, CA Conte-Junior… - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Marine alkaloids comprise a class of compounds with several nitrogenated structures that
can be explored as potential natural bioactive compounds. The scientific interest in these …

Improved Rigidin-Inspired Antiproliferative Agents with Modifications on the 7-Deazahypoxanthine C7/C8 Ring Systems

AE van der Westhuyzen, N Ashraf… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
To improve their aqueous solubility characteristics, water-solubilizing groups were added to
some antiproliferative, rigidin-inspired 7-deazahypoxanthine frameworks after molecular …

Compound library screening identified cardiac glycoside digitoxin as an effective growth inhibitor of gefitinib-resistant non-small cell lung cancer via downregulation of …

YZ Zhang, X Chen, XX Fan, JX He, J Huang, DK Xiao… - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) dominates over 85% of all lung cancer cases.
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activating mutation is a common situation in …

[HTML][HTML] Microtubule-destabilizing agents enhance STING-mediated innate immune response via biased mechanism in human monocyte cells

S Lim, HR Jung, H Lee, Y Chu, H Kim, E Kim… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The stimulator of the interferon gene (STING) signaling pathway acts as a primary defense
system against DNA pathogens. Because of the crucial role of STING in type I interferon …