Secondary metabolites and bioactivities ofMyrtus communis

Myxobacterial secondary metabolites: bioactivities and modes-of-action.

Metabolites from Alternaria fungi and their bioactivities.

Alternaria is a cosmopolitan fungal genus widely distributing in soil and organic matter. It includes saprophytic, endophytic and pathogenic species. At least 268 metabolites from Alternaria fungi have been reported in the past few decades. They mainly include nitrogen-containing metabolites, steroids, terpenoids, pyranones, quinones, and phenolics. This review aims to briefly summarize the str...

Secondary Metabolites

Secondary metabolites are organic molecules that are not involved in the normal growth and development of an organism. While primary metabolites have a key role in survive of the species, playing an active function in the photosynthesis and respiration, absence of secondary metabolites does not result in immediate death, but rather in long-term impairment of the organism’s survivability, often ...

Secondary Alcohol Metabolites

Introduction The cardiotoxicity of doxorubicin (DOX) and other quinone-containing antitumor anthracyclines has been tentatively attributed to the formation of drug semiquinones which generate superoxide anion and reduce ferritin-bound Fe(III), favoring the release of Fe(II) and its subsequent involvement in free radical reactions. In the present study NADPHand DOX-supplemented cytosolic fractio...

Cyanobacterial Secondary Metabolites

Cyanobacteria inhabit a range of diverse and extreme habitats and have potential to produce an elaborate array of secondary metabolites with unusual structures and potent bioactivity. This review summarizes several classes of cyanobacterial secondary metabolites some of which pose a threat to human or animal health in aquatic ecosystems because of their acute toxicity. This class includes hepat...