Cancer Research

Nanangenine A

The nanangenines are newly discovered drimane sesquiterpenoid metabolites from a hitherto undescribed Australian fungus, Aspergillus nanangensis. Nanangenine A is a trihydroxylated drimane lactone which was inactive in assays for antibiotic, cytotoxic,...

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Monascin

Monascin (monascoflavin) is a yellow-orange pigment isolated from the fungus, Monascus purpureus used to produce red yeast rice. The structure of monascin was elucidated in 1960. Monascin has a broad bioprofile, including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant,...

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Mensacarcin

Mensarcarcin is an unusual anthracene metabolite of Streptomyces sp. containing nine stereogenic centres and two epoxy functionalities first isolated by Zeeck and co-workers in the late 1990s. Mensacarcin has broad antitumor activity...

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Stephacidin B

Stephacidin B, the dimer of avrainillamide, is green pigment isolated from Aspergillus ochraceus and other Aspergillus sp.  Stephacidin B is more potent and selective than its monomeric analog, stephacidin A. Stephacidin B is rapidly converted to...

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Ethyl Mycophenolate

Ethyl mycophenolate is the ethyl ester of mycophenolic acid produced by Penicillium brevicompactum but devoid of the antifungal activity of mycophenolic acid. There are few reports of the biological activity of ethyl mycophenolate, however its analogue...

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Epirubicin Hydrochloride

Epirubicin is the 4'-epi-isomer of the antitumor agent, doxorubicin. Epirubicin acts by inhibiting topoisomerase II resulting in DNA double strand breaks. The anthracyclines also act by evicing histone from open chromatin, deregulating the...

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Cryptopleurine

Cryptopleurine is a phenanthroquinolizidine secondary metabolite from Cryptocarya pleurosperma first reported by de la Lande, Melbourne University, Australia in 1948 and its structure revised in 1954. Cryptopleurine has antifungal activity via inhibition...

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D-2-Aminoglutarimide

  Molecular Formula  C5H8N2O2  

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Aspergillin PZ

Aspergillin PZ is an isoindole metabolite isolated from Aspergillus awarori by activity-guided fractionation and purification. Aspergillin PZ adversely affects the hyphae and spores of P. oryzae, a nitrogen-fixing bacterium. Aspergillin PZ has weak...

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Artemisin

Artemisinin is a sesquiterpene lactone isolated from the aerial parts of Artemisia annua L.. Artemisin is best known for its activity against the malaria parasite including resistant strains, but also has antitumor, immunomodulatory and...

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Ansamitocin P3

Ansamitocins, a new group of ansamycin antibiotics with potent antitumor activity, were first reported in the journal Nature in 1977 by researchers from Takeda Chemical Industries. Anisomitocin P3 is the 3-O-methylpropanoyl derivative of maytansinol...

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Anagyrine

Anagyrine is a teratogenic quinolizidine alkaloid found in Lupinus sp. which undergoes metabolism to a piperidine that causes crooked calf syndrome. Anagyrine, but not lupanine or sparteine, directly desensitize nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR)...

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