Biocatalysis of the antimalarial artemisinin by Mucor ramannianus strains

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 579-582

  Parshikov, Igor A ^a   Miriyala, Bruhaspathy ^a   Muraleedharan, Kannoth M ^a   Illendula, Anuradha ^a   Avery, Mitchell A ^a   Williamson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimalarial drugs; Artemisinin; Biocatalysis; Mucor ramannianus; Transformation

Indexed keywords

4 ALPHA HYDROXY 1 DEOXOARTEMISININ; 6 BETA HYDROXYARTEMISININ; 7 ALPHA HYDROXYARTEMISININ; 7 BETA HYDROXYARTEMISININ; ARTEMISININ; MALTOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOCATALYST; BIOENGINEERING; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; HYDROXYLATION; MUCOR; MUCOR RAMANNIANUS; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

MUCOR; UMBELOPSIS RAMANNIANA;

EID: 30344455596     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13880200500301597     Document Type: Article

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