Marine Natural Products as Prototype Agrochemical Agents

marine microbial natural products

Marine natural products as anticancer drugs.

The chemical and biological diversity of the marine environment is immeasurable and therefore is an extraordinary resource for the discovery of new anticancer drugs. Recent technological and methodologic advances in structure elucidation, organic synthesis, and biological assay have resulted in the isolation and clinical evaluation of various novel anticancer agents. These compounds range in st...

Marine microbiome as source of natural products

Less than 1% of living microorganisms can be cultured in the laboratory, but even this minute part has produced incredible discoveries such as antibiotics that have saved millions of lifes. We can only imagine what other great inventions will come to light when the rest of this enormous universe of living genomes is awakened. Everything is recorded in the genes, and modern metagenomic studies, ...

7. Marine natural alkaloids as anticancer agents

Alkaloids are naturally occurring nitrogen containing biologically active heterocyclic compounds. Over the last few years, a large number of biologically important alkaloids with antiviral, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, antioxidant and anticancer activities have been isolated from marine source. Present article summarizes the isolation and anticancer activity evaluation of nat...

Natural Products as Sources of Antitumor Agents