The discovery of chlorothricin (1) defined a new family of microbial metabolites with potent antitumor antibiotic properties collectively referred to as spirotetronate polyketides. These microbial metabolites are structurally distinguished by the presence of a spirotetronate motif embedded within a macrocyclic core. Glycosylation at the periphery of this core contributes to the structural compl...

The main components of sambong (Blumea balsamifera) are listed in this article. The whole plant and its crude extracts, as well as its isolated constituents, display numerous biological activities, such as antitumor, hepatoprotective, superoxide radical scavenging, antioxidant, antimicrobial and anti-inflammation, anti-plasmodial, anti-tyrosinase, platelet aggregation, enhancing percutaneous pe...

Cinnamon is one of the most important herbal drugs and has been widely used in Asia for more than 4000 years. As a folk medicine, cinnamon has been traditionally applied to the treatment of inflammatory disorders and gastric diseases. After chemical profiling of cinnamon's components, their biological activities including antimicrobial, antiviral, antioxidant, antitumor, antihypertension, antil...

Previously, we reported that the 3,4-epoxypiperidine structure, whose design was based on the active site of DNA alkylating antitumor antibiotics, azinomycins A and B, possesses prominent DNA cleavage activity. In this report, novel caged DNA alkylating agents, which were designed to be activated by UV irradiation, were synthesized by the introduction of four photo-labile protecting groups to a...

Tea (Camellia sinensis) is a beverage beneficial to health and is also a source for extracting bioactive components such as theanine, tea polyphenols (TPP) and tea polysaccharides (TPS). TPS is a group of heteropolysaccharides bound with proteins. There is evidence showing that TPS not only improves immunity but also has various bioactivities, such as antioxidant, antitumor, antihyperglycemia, ...

Polysaccharide is widely distributed in natural resources, and currently attracts scientists' attention for their various bio-functions including immunomodulatory activity, hypoglycemic hypolipidemic antitumor promoting effects on gastrointestinal function, so on. The purity structure characteristics of different polysaccharides greatly restrict the in-depth study bioactivity mechanism. Therefo...

objective: silicon is an effective element in bone biomineralization; hence si-substituted hydroxyapatite can be a relevant bioceramic as bone materials substitution. materials and methods: stoichiometric hydroxyapatite (ha) and si-substituted hydroxyapatite (si-ha) with different contents of si substitution were synthesized successfully by a hydrothermal method using ca(no3)2, (nh4)3po4 or (n...

Abstract Oncolytic adenoviruses (OAs)‐based virotherapy can regulate the tumor microenvironment, providing a rational strategy for combination treatment with other therapy techniques, such as transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE). Here, novel, validated viroembolization (TAVE) strategy—a calcium alginate hydrogel microsphere OA encapsulated (OA@Alg beads) to achieve of TAE oncolytic enhance...

This work was to isolate and identify the bioactive secondary metabolite which was produced by myxobacterium Stigmatella eracta WXNXJ-B, and to evaluate its antitumor and apoptosis-inducing effects. The results showed that one novel compound (molecular formula C29H25NO3) was isolated, purified by Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography and preparative RP-HPLC, and identified as 5-(6-benzyl-quinoli...