In 1993, the research groups of Pettit [1], Fusetani [2] and Kitagawa [3] independently
disclosed the isolation of minute amounts of several congeners of the spongistatin family of …

The 22nd Conference on Isoprenoids took place in Prague, Czech Republic, on 7-10
September 2014, and focused on Recent Progress in Chemistry, Biology and Applications …

The spongipyran macrolides, a new class of marine natural products, exhibit subnanomolar
antitumor activities against a number of human cancer cell lines. Independent …

These contributions were submitted so late after the deadline we were unable to include
them into the indexed collection of abstracts. However, we did our best to let them appear …

Plant Isoprenoids: Methods and Protocols is a collection of detailed techniques that will be a
useful tool for a wide range of plant biologists, as well as for scientists of other fields …

Isoprenoids, also known as terpenoids, represent the largest class of natural products,
comprising more than 40,000 different structures found in all kingdoms of life. Plants, in …

The organizing committee welcomes you to the 20 th Conference on Isoprenoids organized
by the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the …

The spongistatins comprise an architecturally unique family of macrolides that have attracted
wide interest in both the chemical and biomedical communities [1] as a consequence of their …

Several novel, marine-derived, macrocyclic lactones with identical or similar skeletal
structures, including the altohyrtins, 1, 2 the spongistatins, 3 and cinachyrolide A, 4 have …

First reported in 1993 by three groups (Kobayashi and Kitagawa, Pettit, and Fusetani),[1] the
altohyrtins/spongistatins/cinachyrolides are a unique family of antimitotic macrolides [2±5] …