Fungus-Elicited Metabolites from Plants as an Enriched Source for New Leishmanicidal Agents: Antifungal Phenyl-Phenalenone Phytoalexins from the Banana Plant (Musa acuminata) Target Mitochondria of Leishmania donovani Promastigotes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1534-1540

  Luque Ortega, Juan Román ^a   Martínez, Silvia ^b   Saugar, José María ^a   Izquierdo, Laura R ^c   Abad, Teresa ^c   Luis, Javier G ^c   Piñero, José ^b   Valladares, Basilio ^b   Rivas, Luis ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c Inst de Bio Organica AG Gonzalez   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 METHOXY 9 PHENYLPHENALEN 1 ONE; ANIGORUFONE; ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; MUSA ACUMINATA EXTRACT; PHENYLPHENALENONE PHYTOALEXIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BANANA; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG TARGETING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; INHIBITION KINETICS; LC 50; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MITOCHONDRION; MUSA ACUMINATA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; FUNGI; KINETICS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSA; NADPH-FERRIHEMOPROTEIN REDUCTASE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENALENES; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 2142695761     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.5.1534-1540.2004     Document Type: Article

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