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  2. Investigations of fungal secondary metabolites with potential anticancer activity

Investigations of fungal secondary metabolites with potential anticancer activity

  • J Nat Prod. 2010 May 28;73(5):969-71. doi: 10.1021/np900731p.
ElHadj Saidou Balde 1 Anna Andolfi Céline Bruyère Alessio Cimmino Delphine Lamoral-Theys Maurizio Vurro Marc Van Damme Claudio Altomare Véronique Mathieu Robert Kiss Antonio Evidente
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Affiliation

  • 1 Laboratoire de Toxicologie and Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique, Toxicologie et Chimie Physique Appliquee, Institut de Pharmacie, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract

Fourteen metabolites, isolated from phytopathogenic and toxigenic fungi, were evaluated for their in vitro antigrowth activity for six distinct Cancer cell lines, using the MTT colorimetric assay. Bislongiquinolide (1) and dihydrotrichodimerol (5), which belong to the bisorbicillinoid structural class, displayed significant growth inhibitory activity against the six Cancer cell lines studied, while the remaining compounds displayed weak or no activity. The data show that 1 and 5 have similar growth inhibitory activities with respect to those Cancer cell lines that display certain levels of resistance to pro-apoptotic stimuli or those that are sensitive to Apoptosis. Quantitative videomicroscopy analysis revealed that 1 and 5 exert their antiproliferative effect through cytostatic and not cytotoxic activity. The preliminary results from the current study have stimulated further structure-activity investigations with respect to the growth inhibitory activity of compounds belonging to the bisorbicillinoid group.

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