Endophytic fungi: a source of potential antifungal compounds

SK Deshmukh, MK Gupta, V Prakash, S Saxena - Journal of Fungi, 2018 - mdpi.com
The emerging and reemerging forms of fungal infections encountered in the course of
allogeneic bone marrow transplantations, cancer therapy, and organ transplants have …

Antifungal secondary metabolites produced by the fungal endophytes: Chemical diversity and potential use in the development of biopesticides

K Xu, XQ Li, DL Zhao, P Zhang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Plant diseases caused by phytopathogenic fungi can lead to huge losses in the agricultural
fields and therefore remain a continuous threat to the global food security. Chemical-based …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions of fungi with non-isothiocyanate products of the plant glucosinolate pathway: A review on product formation, antifungal activity, mode of action and …

T Plaszkó, Z Szűcs, G Vasas, S Gonda - Phytochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The glucosinolate pathway, which is present in the order Brassicales, is one of the most
researched defensive natural product biosynthesis pathways. Its core molecules, the …

Natural indole‐containing alkaloids and their antibacterial activities

Y Liu, Y Cui, L Lu, Y Gong, W Han… - Archiv der …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As the growth in resistance to bacterial infection treatments poses a grave threat to global
health in the 21st century, there is a constant need to explore novel antibacterial agents that …

Structural diversity and biological activities of the cyclodipeptides from fungi

X Wang, Y Li, X Zhang, D Lai, L Zhou - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Cyclodipeptides, called 2, 5-diketopiperazines (2, 5-DKPs), are obtained by the
condensation of two amino acids. Fungi have been considered to be a rich source of novel …

Overview on antibacterial metabolites from terrestrial Aspergillus spp

AA Al-Fakih, WQA Almaqtri - Mycology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Medicines developed from natural sources are a frequent target for the research and
discovery of antimicrobial compounds. Discovering of penicillin in 1928 was a motive to …

Natural products containing the nitrile functional group and their biological activities

C Scotti, JW Barlow - Natural Product Communications, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The importance of nitriles as a key class of chemicals with applications across the sciences
is widely appreciated. The natural world is an underappreciated source of chemically …

Synthesis, antifungal activities and molecular docking studies of benzoxazole and benzothiazole derivatives

B Luo, D Li, AL Zhang, JM Gao - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Based on benzoxazole and benzothiazole scaffold as an important pharmacophore, two
series of 2-(aryloxymethyl) benzoxazole and benzothiazole derivatives were synthesized …

The Endophytic Fungi Diversity, Community Structure, and Ecological Function Prediction of Sophora alopecuroides in Ningxia, China

R Wang, Q Zhang, M Ju, S Yan, Q Zhang, P Gu - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sophora alopecuroides L. has great medicinal and ecological value in northwestern China.
The host and its microbiota are mutually symbiotic, collectively forming a holobiont …

Bis-naphtho-γ-pyrones from fungi and their bioactivities

S Lu, J Tian, W Sun, J Meng, X Wang, X Fu, A Wang… - Molecules, 2014 - mdpi.com
Bis-naphtho-γ-pyrones are an important group of aromatic polyketides derived from fungi.
They have a variety of biological activities including cytotoxic, antitumor, antimicrobial …